Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, died in 456 BC, relatively early in Pericles' long career as Athens' leading politician. He left a number of important plays that still survive today ...

Pericles called Athens "the school of Hellas," an education ... the marble embodiment of the Athenian golden age, that golden age was brief." Q: Then is the Parthenon, the building itself, almost ...

They traded honey, olive oil, silver, and painted pottery for the items mentioned above. During Athens' golden age, the agora was a place where goods were traded and bought. Athens today is one of the ...

Despite Minos’s mythological status, the historian Thucydides—working at the height of Athens’s golden age in the fifth century B.C.—wrote of him as if he were a historical figure ...

The Agora of Ancient Athens is the perfect place to walk around on a nice day as you feel the warm Greek sunshine and explore ...

The Classical Journal Vol. 14, No. 8, May, 1919 Was Athens in the Age of Pericles Aristo... Was Athens in the Age of Pericles Aristocratic? This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section ...

A wine cup believed to belong to ancient Greek politician Pericles, discovered in 2014, is the highlight of the Epigraphical ...