Policital leadership of athens was passed to a decendant of what powerful and historically influential family?
Ephialtes:  In 461 BC, he was assassinated, probably at the instigation of resentful oligarchs, and the political leadership of Athens passed to his deputy, Pericles. Pericles:  He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family.
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