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Pericles, the young Prince (ruler) of Tyre in Phoenicia (Lebanon), hears the riddle, and instantly understands its meaning: Antiochus is engaged in an incestuous relationship with his daughter. If he reveals this truth, he will be killed, but if he answers incorrectly, he will also be killed.
Who Was Pericles? Pericles (495-429 BCE) was born five years before the battle of Marathon, in an ongoing era of conflict between changing alliances of Grecian states and Persia. Under the tutelage of a pedagogue, he received the typical education of a young aristocrat-reading, writing, music, arts, rhetoric, and oratory.