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Title: What makes the Golden Age


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What makes the Golden Age golden?
  • We along regard a man who takes no interest in
    public affairs not as harmless, but as a useless
    character.
  • Pericles funeral
  • oration 431 B.C.

www.newgenevacenter.org/ reference/greece2.htm
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The Golden Age lasted from
  • 460 - 429 B.C.

and how many years is that???
31 Years
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Three goals of Pericles
  • Protection
  • Beautification
  • Democracy

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Three goals of Pericles
Protection
Beautification
Democracy
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Protection
  • Main goal protect Athens from foreign invasion
  • Built up a very powerful navy
  • Construction of Long Walls
  • Stretched five miles from Athens to its harbor
  • Built in 458 B.C.E.
  • Constructed to ensure food supply to Athens would
    not be cut off

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Beautification
  • Encouraged building projects, the arts and
    literature
  • Rebuilt temples on the Acropolis (using the
    Delian Leagues money)
  • Tried to make Athens a model city

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"Future ages will wonder at us, as the present
age wonders at us now."
- Pericles
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http//go.hrw.com/hrw.nd/gohrw_rls1/pKeywordResult
s?keywordst920walls20of20athens
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http//www.eurovacations.com/community/greece/offi
cial.html
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Democracy
  • Citizens who served in government were now paid
  • Spread power more evenly between the rich and the
    poor
  • During the Golden Age as many as 20,000 citizens
    were paid for their service

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