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(11 pp) In the Classical period of Greek history
(500-336 BCE), Athens reached its greatest
political and cultural heights: the full
development of the democratic system of government
under the Athenian statesman Pericles; the building
of the Parthenon on the Acropolis; the creation of
the tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides;
and the founding of the philosophical schools of
Socrates and Plato. Bibliography lists 9 sources, and 4 illlustrations.
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11 pages (~225 words per page)
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the Greek acros, meaning high or upper and polis, meaning city) of Athens is a steep-sided hill supporting several temples, precincts, and other buildings. Archaeological evidence indicates it has been
used since Neolithic times and that even then, as the numerous female figurines found there suggest, it was associated with female power. Although it had evidently used also as a
defensible place of refuge since the Bronze Age, it appears nonetheless to have been a sacred site at all times (Whitcombe ppg).
In the Classical period of Greek history (500-336 BCE), Athens reached its greatest political and cultural heights: the full development of the democratic system of
government under the Athenian statesman Pericles; the building of the Parthenon on the Acropolis; the creation of the tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides; and the founding of the
philosophical schools of Socrates and Plato.
a reconstruction of the Acropolis as it appeared in the 5th century BCE During the Classical period of the 5th
century BCE in Athens, following the destruction of earlier temples by the Persians, the Greek general and statesman, Pericles (c. 500-429 BCE), initiated a vast rebuilding campaign for the Acropolis.
The Propilaea (gateway) and the Parthenon were completed during his lifetime, but work on the Temple of Athena Nike and the Erechtheum was not begun until after his death
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