Peace with Persia. Athens spent the war funds on its own glorification.
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We call it the Golden Age.
It was the Golden Age of Athens. He encouraged big spending and the expansion of Athenian enforcement of the collection of taxes from Athens' empire and spending it on the glorification of Athens and handouts to its citizens.
Philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle,Phidias - the greatest sculptor and Pericles a great leader were from this golden age of Athens.
Athens, specifically in its Golden Age.
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