Pericles (c490-429 BC), Athenian statesman, (1830). [Getty Images]

Pericles (c490-429 BC), Athenian statesman, (1830). Among the public buildings erected in Athens under the patronage of Pericles (or Perikles) were the Parthenon, the Erechtheum, the Odeum and the Propylaea. From The World Displayed by the Rev Royal Robbins. (New York, 1830). (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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