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The Golden Age
I.
Pericles’ Plan
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Wise, honest and fair statesman
Skillful politician, inspiring speaker
A. Stronger democracy
1. increase in public officials, paid salaries
2. rich and poor were involved in self-government
3. introduction of direct democracy
B. Athenian Empire
1. took power over Delian League
2. navy strongest in the Med. Sea
3. Sparta at odds with Athens
C. Glorifying Athens
1. bought gold, ivory, and marble
2. artists, architects and workers
II. Glorious Art and Architecture
• Parthenon
A. Architecture and Sculpture
1. Phidaus sculpted Parthenon;
23,000 sq. ft. temple
2. Classical Art; ideal vs real
III. Drama and History
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art form and built first theaters
A. Tragedy
1. love, hate, war, or betrayal
2. Oresteia, Sophocles and Euripides
B. Comedy
1. slapstick situations and humor
2. Arisophanes and Lysistrata
IV. History
A. Herodotus
1. writings of the Persian Wars
B. Thucydides
2. studied certain reoccurring events
and political situations
V.
Athenians and Sparta at War
A. Peloponnesian War
1. Athens stronger Navy
2. Sparta stronger Army
3. eventual truce in 421bc
B. Sparta gains victory
1. 413bc Athenians are defeated
2. Athens loses its empire, wealth and
power.
VI.
Philosophers
A. Socrates
1. absolute standards for truth and justice
B. Plato
1. The Republic, ideal society
C. Aristotle
1. questioned nature of the world, human
belief, thought and knowledge
2. basis of scientific method