Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, died in 456 BC, relatively early in Pericles' long career as Athens' leading politician. He left a number of important plays that still survive today ...

In Athens, the fifth century BC served as a period in which art and thought flourished, and it defines our image of Ancient ...

They traded honey, olive oil, silver, and painted pottery for the items mentioned above. During Athens' golden age, the agora was a place where goods were traded and bought. Athens today is one of the ...

Pericles called Athens "the school of Hellas," an education ... the marble embodiment of the Athenian golden age, that golden age was brief." Q: Then is the Parthenon, the building itself, almost ...

Plato was born between 429 B.C. and 423 B.C. The Parthenon stood over the city, but Athens’s golden age was over. As much as a third of Athens’s population died in the plague of 430-426.

The ensuing golden age was great for philosophy, literature, drama, architecture and some experiments in democracy. Not quite so great for the other city states around Athens, as the area slowly ...

The Agora of Ancient Athens is the perfect place to walk around on a nice day as you feel the warm Greek sunshine and explore ...

"Mycenae — a fortress city atop a hill — was the hub of a mighty civilization that dominated the Greek world between 1600 and 1200 BC[E], a thousand years before Athens' Golden Age." ...