That statement came after the first year of his country's disastrous 27-year con- flict with its neighboring states.
He said, "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." That statement came after the first year of his country's disastrous 27-year con- flict with its neighboring states. At the outset of the war, this statesman and general used defensive walls to keep enemies out, a strategy that backfired in the second year of the war, when dense living conditions allowed a plague to spread and kill him along with one third of the populace. Name this architect of the Delian League, implacable enemy of Sparta, and first citizen of Athens.
He said, "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
Pericles