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Pericles Wise statesmen Held public office for 32 years Skillful politician, inspiring speaker, respected general 3 goals for Athens 1) strengthen democracy 2) strengthen empire 3) glorify AthensTRANSCRIPT
Chapter 5 Section 3
Greece’s Golden Age
Direct democracyClassical artTragedyComedyPeloponnesian WarPhilosopherSocratesPlatoAristotle
Vocab
Pericles’ Plan for AthensPericles
Wise statesmenHeld public office for 32
yearsSkillful politician,
inspiring speaker, respected general
3 goals for Athens1) strengthen democracy2) strengthen empire3) glorify Athens
Stronger Democracy:
Increased number of paid public officialsNow even a poor citizen can serve in officeAthens one of most democratic governments in
history
Direct Democracy : Citizens rule directly; not through representatives
Pericles’ Plan
Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; when it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership in a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses. No one, so long as he has it in him to be of service to the state, is kept in political obscurity because of poverty.
-Pericles, “The Funeral Oration”
Primary Source – Democracy
Athenian Empire:Used money from Delian League to grow navy
Athens had largest navy in the Mediterranean
Important- needed over seas supplies
Pericles’ Plan
Glorify Athens:Pericles used large sums of money to beautify
Athens
Bought lots gold, ivory, and marble
Goal was to have the greatest artists in Greece create magnificent sculptures and buildings to glorify Athens
Pericles’ Plan
Parthenon:Temple built to honor Athena- goddess of
wisdom and protector of AthensGreek architecture set standards for artist for
generations.Classical Art: Greek portrayal of ideal
beauty; not reality
Architecture
Peloponnesian War: Athens vs. Sparta 431 B.C.E. Athens had stronger navy
Sparta stronger army
Pericles tries to wait to engage Spartans on the sea.
Eventually Sparta moved toward Athens burning all food supplies as they wentAthens is struck by a plague that kills nearly 1/3 of
the population
Athens and Sparta go to War!
Peloponnesian War
After 10 years of war both sides sign a truce
415 B.C.E. Athens sends 20,000 men to the island of Sicily to fight against Syracuse a wealthy ally of Sparta.
They are badly defeated
In 404 B.C.E Athens finally surrenders; they had lost their empire, power and wealth
Athens vs Sparta