GOLDEN AGE

GOLDEN AGE

• The “golden age” of Greece lasted for little more than a century but it laid the foundations of western civilization.
• The age began with the unlikely defeat of a vast Persian army by badly outnumbered Greeks
• 500 b.c - 300 b.c
• In golden age you have a lot of growth of the city.
• A bank was held on Delos for the Delian league.

DILEAN LEAGUE

• A group of city states that came together after the persian war.
• They were called to come together if anyone ever threaten greece.
• They contributed ships and money to stockpile
• Athens decided since they are the biggest that they should be the leaders
• Athens abused the power and spent all the money on themselves

PERCILES

• The leader that was given much credit during the golden age
• Great general, orator, patron of the arts, and politician
• The "first citizen" of democratic athens, according to some historians
• Father and mother were both well respected people
• He grew up around artist and philosophers

LOCATION

• The bank for the Delian league was held on Delos
• But the leaders of the Delian league was the Athens
• The Athenians got greedy and took all the money for themselves
• That is why Athens is the center of the Golden age

ARCHITECTURE

• The most magnificent original sculptures from this period are those from the temples of the Athenian
• The Athenians like to surround themselves with beauty.
• They liked to show there pride by building temples, gymnasiums, and theaters
• A Arcopolis was the perfect setting for special artistic creation
• Apon that arcopolis they built the parthenon

ART

• During this era painting and sculpting were the 2 forms of art.
• The greeks mostly paint on vases and pottery.
• Myron and Phidias were the two main sculptors during that era.
• Paintings and or Sculptures both showed greek culture and how they veiwed things.

GREEK PHILOSOPHY

• Among the dwellers of Athens during its Golden Age is the philosopher Socrates
• Though he left no writings of his own, he is mostly known through the work of his student Plato
• The 'Socratic method' consists of asking questions until you arrive at the essence of a subject
• His philosophy begins with the belief that he knows nothing and that life is not for attaining riches but a process of knowing oneself.
• He believed that virtue was the most valuable of all possessions and that the job of a philosopher was to point out to people how little they actually knew.

END OF GOLDEN AGE

• The peloponnesian was the ending point for the golden age
• As the Athenians grew stronger the Spartans got more threatened
• Pericles thought bringing everyone in the walls would Stop The Spartans.
• A plague went threw Athens and killed lots of people plus Pericles and his sons
• After that the golden age just slid away...