# Pericles — Representative Men character guide

> Pericles in Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0001-ii-plato-or-the-philospher

## Who they are

Athenian statesman, cited as an example of political leadership.

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