Athenian leader Pericles proposed a defensive alliance and sent a small number of ships to protect Corcyra from Corinth... Pericles rejected peace ... Pericles returned to Athens in 430 BC as a plague ravaged the city.
She and Pericles, the great general and politician, fell deeply in love ... ‘Pericles and Aspasia ... Aspasia and Pericles had a son, Pericles the Younger, and bearing a child to Pericles presented Aspasia with a new goal.