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Under Pericles, Athens became a center of learning and arts? Please explain this.

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Pericles was the general of Athens after the Persian Wars. Besides making Athens a more democratic city-sate, he also made it a center of learning and arts by supporting artists, teachers, sculptors and architects. He also had monuments, temples and statues made, making athens a more neat looking city.

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