Great victory over Persia Athens becomes the leader of the Delian League Other city-states pay tribute to Athens for protection

Rules Athens from 461-429 BC Extended democracy to most adult males having an equal voice Rebuilds Athens after the war

Built 447-438 BC Dedicated to the goddess Athena Used as a treasury & temple

Lasting contributions to all aspects of Western Culture © Students of History

Classical Order used in buildings & columns Doric - simple Ionic – use of scrolls Corinthian – ornate & fancy

Phidias - greatest of all sculptor Greece His Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Herodotus – considered the Father of History Wrote about the Persian Wars Thucydides - wrote accurate histories Wrote about the Peloponnesian War

Homer – wrote epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey – the story of the Trojan War & Odysseus’ return

Aeschylus – the “Father of tragedy” Sophocles – used well-developed characters in plays like Oedipus and Antigone

Archimedes - mathematician & inventor (screw, heat ray) “Eureka!” Hippocrates – doctor & namesake of the Hippocratic Oath

Euclid – the “Father of Geometry” Pythagoras – most famous for his Pythagorean theorem about right triangles

Socrates – popular philosopher falsely accused and convicted of corrupting the youth Plato – student of Socrates, argued for a philosopher as king Aristotle - Plato's best student & well-paid tutor of Alexander the Great

Exit Ticket Which achievements from Athens Golden Age do you think had the biggest influence on the world today? Explain!