He rose to prominence after serving as choregos fo
He rose to prominence after serving as choregos for Aeschylus' prizewinning play The Persians in 472 BCE, and helped Ephialtes topple the Aeropagus approximately ten years later. Tutored by Anaxagoras, he used money from the treasury of the Delian League to finance the building of the Parthenon on the Acropolis, but is better known for instituting a law that paid citizens for jury duty and for helping to start the Peloponnesian War after refusing an ultimatum from Sparta. FTP, name this leader of Athens famed for his democratic reforms, mistakenly called "Prince of Tyre" in a Shakespeare play.
He rose to prominence after serving as choregos for Aeschylus' prizewinning play The Persians in 472 BCE, and helped Ephialtes topple the Aeropagus approximately ten years later.