GREEK: GOLDEN AGE

WHAT COMES TO MIND WHEN YOU HEAR GOLDEN AGE??

• Wealth
• Advancements in art
• Advancements in technology
• Glory

WHERE THE GOLDEN AGE IS LOCATED

• Mediterranean Sea and the Asia Minor
• Obviously in greece

WHAT IS THE GOLDEN AGE?

• The classical, or the Golden Age was around 500 to 300 b.c
• This era is also referred to as the “Age of Pericles”
• The defeat of a vast Persian army by badly outnumbered Greeks
• This Era showed the birth of democracy in Athens.

ARCHITECTURE IN THE GOLDEN AGE

• Paintings and sculptures show humans in the perfect form.
• This was the period of the most tremendous art work in history
• Most of there work has been done with marble
• The figure of a young man expresses the unity of beauty an proportion

GOLDEN AGE FACTS

• Other greek city-states wear jealous and fearful of athenian power
• After 27 years of fighting........ Athens surrendered to Sparta