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Greece’s Golden Age
Chapter 5 Section 3
Direct Democracy
• Form of Government in which citizens rule
directly
• Legacy of Pericles
• Male citizens established all government
policy
The Parthenon
• 23,000 square feet
• Built in honor of Athena
• Statue of Athena inside
– Goddess of wisdom and the protector of
Athens
2. Parthenon
• Athena’s Temple at the Acropolis
Main Battles of Persian War
• Battle of Marathon
– Greek Victory
• Battle of Thermopylae
– Persian Victory
• Battle of Plataea
– Persian Victory
• Battle of Salamis
- Greek Victory
Aftermath of Persian War
• Athens became wealthy
• Formed the Delian
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League – alliance of
Greek city states against
Persians
Pericles builds the
Parthenon
Sparta becomes jealous
of Athenian power –
PELOPONESIAN WAR
BEGINS
Which of the following was not
involved in the Persian War?
A. Athens
B. Sparta
C. Persia
D. All of the above
Pericles
• Head of Athens for 32 years
• 461-429 BC Age of Pericles
• 3 Goals
– Strengthen Athenian Democracy
– Hold and strengthen the empire
– Glorify Athens
Quest For Beauty and Meaning
• Golden Age – time
•
of cultural
achievement in arts,
literature, painting,
and sculpture
Classical Age – all
art shows balance,
elegance and
simplicity
Sculpture
• Greeks built places for
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their gods to live
Many buildings were
constructed by the
poor
Sculptors made large
statues of the gods
inside them
Painters
• Painter’s decorated
•
pottery presenting the
culture of Greece
Amphora – vase that
stores oil – was
painted with many
designs and stories
Classical Art shows all of the
following except
A. Emotion
B. Balance
C. Proportion
D. Order
Greek plays
• Comedies –
humorous themes
with happy endings
• Tragedies – serious
themes with an
unhappy ending
Greek Theatre
The Greek Mind
• Philosophers – a thinker or
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lover of wisdom
Greeks were tired of just
accepting things as the way
they were
There must be reason!!!
Sophists – believed that
Gods had no power over
man and there shouldn’t be
any laws for man
Greek Philosophers
Ancient Greek Dead Dude who
drank hemlock
A. Sophocles
B. Socrates
C. Plato
D. Aristotle
Sophists believe that laws were
absolutely necessary to Greek life
A. True
B. False