No, he helped bring about democracy in Athens.
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No, he was a famous democrat in Athens.
In a the modern term of tyrant yes; but in the classical greek tyrant defintion yes because percicules was someone who illegally seized power he had no right to the power during this time.
Pericles is the most famous politician in Athens.
Pericles (490-429 BCE) was a Greek Archon who develop social programs that paid Athenian men to build beautiful monuments in Athens. Though he began as an Archon, he is often referred to as the Tyrant of Athens. Plutarch details Pericles political life and the monuments he had built in his Life of Pericles.
Pericles was not a tyrant. Athens was a radical democracy and Pericles was variously a magistrate and general but had to justify his actions to the popular Assembly. He gained ascendency by arranging the banishment of his main political opponent Thucydides son of Melesias, but preferred to think of himself as 'first citizen' and had to influence his people by persuasion. His influence was, unfortunately too great, and led his people into a disastrous war imagining that Athens could use its empire to dominate the Greek world. He died of the plague before seeing the catastrophe that this war brought to the Greek world in general and Athens in particular.
The Parthenon - temple of Athena.
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Thucydides described Pericles as the first citizen of Athens
Pericles made Athens a beautiful city.
These terms are all related to ancient Greek civilization. Sparta and Athens were city-states, with Athens known for its democracy and Sparta for its monarchy. Tyrants were rulers who gained power through force rather than inheritance. Pericles was an influential Athenian statesman, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were famous philosophers, and a jury system was used in both city-states.