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Pericles - The Father of Athenian Democracy Documentary

Athens was a city of chaos—brilliant, loud, and ungovernable. Democracy was an experiment that could collapse into mob rule at any moment. Then one man rose to speak, and when he did, they compared his voice to thunder from Olympus. Pericles dominated Athens for thirty years without a crown, without an army, with nothing but words. He convinced a city of free men to follow him anyway. Under his watch, the Parthenon rose over the Acropolis. Playwrights, philosophers, and artists flourished in ways the world had never seen. But greatness cast a long shadow. His choices pulled Athens into a war it couldn't escape. And when plague swept through the walls he'd told his people to hide behind, it took his sons—and finally, him. He built the golden age. He also built its ending. This is the story of the man whose voice moved a city, and the silence that followed.