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Solon: The Ancient Greek Lawmaker Who Paved the Way for Democracy

Greek Reporter 29 Nov 2025
Credit. by Philipp Foltz (1852)/ Public Domain ... Solon (c. 630 BC – c ... –. CC BY-SA 2.0 ... The ... Despite his departure, his innovative policies and ideas laid the groundwork on which Pericles established the famous Athenian democracy a century later.
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Benefit Your Friend, Hurt Your Enemy: Ancient Greek Tribal Justice

Greek Reporter 26 Nov 2025
Credit. Jack W Pearce, CC BY SA 2.0, Flickr ... The Ancient Greek tribal meaning of friendship and justice ... For instance, Pericles, in his epitaphy, brags about Athens’ audacity and the power it wielded over foes ... Pericles’ Funeral Oration. Credit ... ....
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Athens’ Darkest Hour: The Plague That Shook the Ancient Greek World

Greek Reporter 24 Nov 2025
Pericles, Athens’ most inspiring leader, had this grand strategy ... Pericles mourning the death of his son during the Plague of Athens.
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Athens and Sparta: Two Different Ancient Greek Societies Compared

Greek Reporter 22 Nov 2025
Athenian leader Pericles proposed a defensive alliance and sent a small number of ships to protect Corcyra from Corinth ... Pericles rejected peace ... Pericles returned to Athens in 430 BC as a plague ravaged the city.
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Ancient Greek Courtesan Aspasia as a Feminist Heroine

Greek Reporter 07 Nov 2025
She and Pericles, the great general and politician, fell deeply in love ... ‘Pericles and Aspasia ... Aspasia and Pericles had a son, Pericles the Younger, and bearing a child to Pericles presented Aspasia with a new goal.
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How Ancient Greek Statesman Cleisthenes Forged Democracy a Century Before Pericles

Greek Reporter 11 Oct 2025
Cleisthenes played a pivotal role in shaping Athenian democracy, yet when we think of its glory, we almost immediately picture Pericles ... It was this stable and participatory foundation that made the Golden Age of Pericles possible.
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The 10 Tribes of Ancient Athens

Greek Reporter 10 Oct 2025
Even though Pericles (495-429 BC) is considered to be the one who established democracy in Athens, it was Cleisthenes, an uncle of Pericles, ... Pericles was a member of the tribe that had fifteen deme.
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How Ancient Greeks Mastered Communication Across Land and Time

Greek Reporter 27 Sep 2025
Credit. Pottery Fan / Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 ... The phryctoria ... The most famous speech by a great rhetorician was PericlesFuneral Oration ... He presented the speech in the first person as if it were a word-for-word account of what Pericles said ... Credit ... ....
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