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Pericles
429 BCE - Athens
While the light still holds in plague-stricken Athens, the man who built the Parthenon reflects on what democracy actually cost.
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Rome, Italy · 430 BCE to 421 BCE
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The plague of Athens breaks the city of Pericles
430 BCE · Athens, Greece
Athens becomes the place where war, crowding, and disease collapse civic confidence at the height of democratic ambition.
Pericles keeps the event human because democratic confidence is forced here through a leader who cannot argue a city out of disease.
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Pericles
429 BCE - Athens
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While the light still holds in plague-stricken Athens, the man who built the Parthenon reflects on what democracy actually cost.