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The period during which he led Athens, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the Age of Pericles, though the period thus denoted can include times as early as the Persian Wars, or as late as the next century.
Pericles inherited great wealth; as a young man, he put up the money for the costly production of Aeschylus's play The Persae in 472. Pericles received the best education available, studying music under Damon and mathematics under Zeno of Elea.