Policital leadership of athens was passed to a decendant of what powerful and historically influential family?
Pericles Pericles ( ; Greek: Περικλῆς "Periklēs", ] in Classical Attic; c. 495 – 429 BC) was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age—specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family.
Ypsilantis The Ypsilantis (Greek: Υψηλάντης ; Romanian: "Ipsilanti" ) were a Greek Phanariote family which grew into prominence and power in Constantinople during the last centuries of Ottoman Empire and gave several short-reign "hospodars" to the Danubian Principalities. The family was originally from the southern coast of Black Sea.