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  • Pericles begins a great building plan including the re-fortification of Athens main port Piraeus and its long walls extending to Athens main city.
  • Pericles proposes a "Congress Decree" allowing the use of 9,000 talents[citation needed] to finance the massive rebuilding program of Athenian temples. This leads to a meeting ("Congress") of all Greek states in order to consider the question of rebuilding the temples destroyed by the Persians. The Congress fails because of Sparta's opposition.
  • Pericles places the Athenian sculptor Phidias in charge of all the artistic aspects of his reconstruction program. Construction begins on the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens, while the Athenian Senate commissions Callicrates to construct a temple to Athena Nike on the Acropolis.