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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