The Golden Age

1. The Golden Age

2. Do Now Take out your Pericles Questions Homework.

3. Question 1 Explain the opening quote: “Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves.”

4. Answer Pericles is explaining how his laws are his own; they do not imitate the laws of other city-states. Instead, his laws set the example for other city-states to follow.

5. Question 2 Cite the text to explain how Pericles’ government was a direct democracy. What characteristics did his government make up?

6. Answer A direct democracy is a system in which all citizens make decisions about their government. According to the text, Pericles believed that citizens should participate in and take an interest in the democratic process. Under his leadership, the assembly became the central power of the city-state of Athens. All free-born male citizens had the right – and the responsibility – to serve in the assembly. In this matter, Pericles set up the first direct democracy in Greece.

7. Question 3 Why do you think the Golden Age of Athens is sometimes called the Age of Pericles? Cite the text to explain your response.

8. Answer According to the text, Pericles led Athens for 40 years. Under his leadership, Athens grew to be a great city-state. He had many new buildings constructed, including the Parthenon, a temple of the city-state’s patron goddess, Athena. Theaters, baths, and other buildings were built and opened to the public. Pericles also hired artists to tell Athens’s history in paintings, statues, plays, and poetry. This period included a flowering of culture and building. Because Pericles was the leader throughout all of this process, it is sometimes referred to as the Age of Pericles.

9. Golden Age Architects designed: 1. Government buildings 2. Schools 3. Temples 4. Theaters Artists decorated with murals Athenian playwrights considered best in Greece

10. Mythology Temples built to honor gods Statues of gods created Scenes from Greek mythology painted

11. Pericles Directed architects and builders to create beautiful structures

12. Parthenon

13. Supreme Court

14. Acropolis

15. Lincoln Memorial

16. Lincoln Memorial (Continued)

17. Greek Columns

18. Discobolus

19. Pericles Sculpture

20. Remember…

21. Hesiod Greek poet and author, wrote down the myths and legends that had long been told in Greek mythology

22. Homer Greek poet and author of The Iliad and The Odyssey.Much of what we know about the Mycenaeans comes from his stories.

23. Aesop’s Fables The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf The Hare and the Tortoise The Ant and the Grasshopper

24. Atlas

25. Greek Theatre

26. Sophocles • Ancient Greek writer of tragedies, or serious plays

27. Aristophanes Ancient Greek writer of comedies, or humorous plays

28. Activity Turn to pages 326 and 327 of your textbook.

29. Science, Mathematics, and History

30. Pythagoras Greek philosopher and mathematician; the inventor of geometry

31. Pythagorean theorem

32. Hippocrates • Greek physician known as the Father of Medicine

33. Democritus Greek scientist and philosopher

34. Herodotus Greek historian who traveled throughout most of the world known to the Greeks during his time

35. Thucydides Greek teacher who is considered the greatest historian of ancient times

36. Socrates Greek philosopher who taught by asking questions

37. Plato Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, and teacher of Aristotle

38. Aristotle Greek philosopher and tutor of Alexander the Great. He is considered one of the greatest thinkers of all time.

39. Wrap Up Who was your favorite person of the Golden Age of Athens? Why?