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Why did Pericles lead a fleet into the Black Sea?
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Pericles, detail of a marble herm; in the Vatican Museum.
Pericles led a fleet into the Black Sea to demonstrate Athenian power and to secure the vital grain route originating from the Tauric Chersonese, which is the modern-day Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine.1