From 477-431 BCE, Athens grew greatly in intellectual and artistic aspects. This period is known as the Golden Age of Athens. This is when drama, sculpture, poetry, philosophy, architecture, and science were all advanced.
Pericles
Pericles led Athens ofr a long part of the Golden Age. He held support for 32 years. HE was a skillful politician, an inspiring speaker, and respected general. He dominated Athens life from 461 to 4290 BCE. His goals were to: strengthen Athenian democracy, hold and strengthen the empire and glorify Athens. For his first plan to strengthen democracy, he increased the number of public officials. He allowed anyone to be a public official, not, just the ones who could afford it. This made Athens one of the most direct democracies in history.
"Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law, when it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership in a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses. No one, so long as he has it in him to be of service to the state, is kept in political obscurity because of poverty.
PERICLES, "The Funeral Oration," from Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
Athenian Empire
After the Persians were defeated, Athens created the Delian League. Athens ended up holding all of the power in the Delian League. From the money raised
No comments:
Post a Comment