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.
Cestia (gens) The gens Cestia was a plebeian family at Rome during the later Republic, and in imperial times. The first member of the "gens" to obtain the consulship was Gaius Cestius Gallus in AD 35. The family's name is commemorated on two monuments, the "Pons Cestius" and the Pyramid of Cestius which survive into modern times.