Pericles' Athens

The Athens of Pericles: The actual rise of Athenian democracy has just begun when Pericles aside ostracism by the main political rival, the conservative Cimon. After Cimon's ostracism, Pericles continued to propose ever more radical laws that promoted the level of democracy in Athens really rocketing. The policy of Pericles in Athens continued to be too populist, which kept him in power over the next two decades and opened the way to make Athens the strongest Mediterranean city and the most famous in the ancient world.