Question

Answer all questions given under the heading

Pericles

1. Who was Pericles?
2. What is meant by the Peloponnesian war?
3. ‘Age of Pericles’ – Explain.
4. Who was the greatest thinker of the Pericles Era?

Answer 1

1. Pericles was a great leader of Athens who held power for thirty years.
2. During his rule, Athens and Sparta were continuously at war with each other. This war is known as the Peloponnesian War.
3. Athens became a noble city with magnificent buildings. There were great artists and great thinkers. Historians, therefore, call this the Age of Pericles.
4. Socrates was the greatest thinker of the Pericles Era.