A good example of the origins of "an exception to the senior management rule". "None other than the most prominent figure of Athenian democracy, Pericles, held in 451 BC a law according to which only that person could be included in the number of citizens whose father and mother were both Athenian. Pericles did not even suspect that twenty years later he himself would become a victim of this law. He had two sons from the first Athenian, and then had sons married to his first wife. her, but this young man could not become a citizen and inherit from his father. Then it happened that Pericles' two legitimate sons died overnight from the plague. Pericles faced the danger of being left without an heir at all; So his line was disconnected. And the country's leader was forced to appeal to the People's Assembly with a petition to accept his "illegal" son from Espassia as a citizen. Pericles, literally in tears, begged the Athenians to make him an exception to his law. Demonstrations, respected the merits of his leader, went to meet him. But the law was never repealed." (Igor Surikov, "Polis, logos, cosmos: the world through the eyes of Heleni. Categories of Ancient Greek Culture", 2012).