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Pericles' first permanent project, the American Business & Legal Education Project (ABLE), is an intermediate- term training program founded by several American professors teaching in Moscow. The professors recognized the dire need for young professionals to get professional training quickly. Marion Dent, Dean of ABLE, notes that "there is nothing available in Moscow between expensive, one or two-day business seminars and full bachelors or MBA programs. Young professionals don't have the financial luxury of spending a year or two in school, and they can't afford and don't learn enough in short commercial seminars."
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Pericles was an influential and important leader of Athens during the Athenian Golden Age, specifically, between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars, descending from the Alcmaeonidae family. The period from 461 BC to 379 BC is sometimes known as "The Age of Pericles". He was responsible for a great many building projects which include most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). He ... persuaded the city to build the Long Walls that protected the four-mile route to Peiraeus, the port for Athens. Of particular importance, he fostered the power of democracy, which was a very radical idea.
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Project Pericles does not yet have the brand-name recognition of larger programs like Campus Compact, which serves as an umbrella organization for 975 colleges that promote students' involvement in politics and community service. But there is evidence that the project is already helping its member institutions gain the recognition and financial support they need to meet their goals.
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Pericles may now have hoped to resume his aggressive policy in Greece Proper, but the events of the following years completely disillusioned him. In 447 an Athenian army, which had marched into Boeotia to quell an insurrection, had to surrender in a body at Coronea, and the price of their ransom was the evacuation of Boeotia. Upon news of this disaster Phocis, Locris and Euboea revolted, and the Megarians massacred their Athenian garrison, while a Spartan army penetrated into Attica as far as Eleusis. In this crisis Pericles induced the Spartan leaders to retreat, apparently by means of a bribe, and hastened to reconquer Euboea; but the other land possessions could not be recovered, and in a thirty years' truce which was arranged in 445 Athens definitely renounced her predominance in Greece Proper. Pericles' foreign policy henceforward underwent a profound change -- to consolidate the naval supremacy, or to extend it by a cautious advance, remained his only ambition. While scouting the projects of the extreme Radicals for interfering in distant countries, he occasionally made a display of Athens' power abroad, as in his expedition to the Black Sea, and in the colonization of Thurii, which marks the resumption of a Western policy.
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Pericles promoted the arts and literature; this was a chief reason Athens holds the reputation of being the educational and cultural centre of the ancient Greek world. He started an ambitious project that built most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). This project beautified the city, exhibited its glory, and gave work to the people.[1] Furthermore, Pericles fostered Athenian democracy to such an extent that critics call him a populist.[2][3]
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Pericles promoted arts and literature and his work contributed to Athens achieving its reputation as the educational and cultural centre of the Greek world. Eager to reinforce Athenian intellectual prowess, he prompted an ambitious building project that included most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon). Furthermore, Pericles fostered the blossoming of democracy, to such an extent that critics label him as a populist.[1]
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