The Golden Age of Athens

The Persian Army

Greeks weaken the Persian Empire and the Persians flee across the sea, but they keep their area in Asia Minor and the Greek city-state involved!

Is the War over?? Athens wants to follow the

Persians and take back all of Greece

Sparta wants to just keep what Greece has & they are afraid of Athen’s new found power!!!

Athens

All Walled up and No Where to Go!!!

Sparta demands no polis on the Balkan Peninsula builds a wall – easy for the Persians to invade and keep.

Athens refuses & gets the support of other city-states since they have the powerful navy Greece needs

The Delian League Persia is still a threat!!!!! 150 city-states meet (all but

Sparta) Bind themselves to Athens

Follow their leadership Pay money and military items

In return Athens gives them Continuing protection from Persia

Delian League?? Athens took total control Controlled the money and made

everyone pay them What was it originally used for?? Started to use the money

improving Athens not fighting Persia

THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE

Pericles Military General

became the leader of Athens

AKA – the “first citizen”

The Golden Age of Athens

Pericles Reforms

All city states & people will:DemocracyUse Athenian $Pay taxes

Have a chance in the government

Pericles & Athens

Beautifies Athens Builds Temples Libraries Encourages art,

writers, philosophers, and architects

Problem – uses Delian League $$

Pericles’ version of a theater – used for our modern movie theater designs

Caryatids support the roof of the portico on the Erechtheion sanctuary

Parthenon

$3 Billion & 15 years!

As restored from copies, Athena probably stood with her weight on her

right leg, and her left leg relaxed. She wore

sandals, a peplos belted

over the overfold, an aegis, and a helmet. A centauromachy was

illustrated on the soles of her sandals, and the

helmet was decorated with griffins and sphinxes.

On the palm of her outstretched right hand

she held a statue of Nike, and in the other she held

a spear. At her feet rested a shield, within which a serpent (representing

Erichthonius) was coiled. The shield was decorated

on the outside with an Amazonomachy, and on

the inside with a Gigantomachy. On the

statue base was illustrated the birth of

Pandora, the progenitor of the race of women.