Unit Two Chapter 5 Section 3
Democracy & Greece’s
Golden Age
A. Pericles Plan in Athens
Uses money from Delian League to do THREE things…
1. Strengthen Democracy -bigger government -model for all the world
2. Strengthen Empire -bigger Navy -Persia will never be a
threat again…
3. Bring Glory to Athens -Architecture -Theatre Parthenon
Theatre
B. Glorious Art & Architecture
Government Architecture -City Buildings, Temples Government Sponsors Art -Emphasis on Harmony, Order and Balance -Idealism – not Reality
C. Drama and History
Two Types of Greek Theatre -Tragedy -Comedy Birth of History -Herodotus “Father of History” -wrote for future generations
B. Athens and Sparta go to War
1. Peloponnesian War -Athens had stronger navy -Sparta had stronger army
1. Peloponnesian War -Spartan Army surrounded Athens
2. Ended in truce, but both sides never regained their former glory
C. Philosophers Search for Truth
SOCRATES-Question Everything
PLATO – Sought Philosopher King Wrote “The Republic”
ARISTOTLE – Scientific Method Tutor to Alexander the Great
Unit Two Chapter 5 Sections 3
Democracy & Greece’s Golden Age
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