architecture of the golden age of the athenians
*key buildings - the acropolis was the main group of the buildings in the athens that looked over the city
- it is a sacred area that is one of the most recongnizavle monuments in the world
cost and time
- the acropolis
- it took 9 years to bulid and was completed in 438
- it cost 3 billon
the parathenon and other building on the acroplis were all bulid between 460 and 430 bc under the leatership if percles
it was used for political and cultural achievements
cost and time the parthenon
it cost over 3 billion in today money
buily between 447 bc and 432 bc
it was one of the biggest consruction projects of the ancient world
The porcg if caryatids has six columns holding up the roof are
all female figures were each sculpured differently and engineered so that their slender necks could take the weight of th roof and still look real
cost and time porch of caryastide
started building in 421 bc and wa compledted in 406
it cost 130 milllon to build
grrek art iin the golden age
the most devine and complex sculptures of this time are the sculptures of the athenians acropolis
the earliest of there are the parathanon sculptures in time soon became a church
purpose of building
-buldings were built to show cultural and political achivements of athens
- other were used to honor gods and goddessess suck as athena
- the goddess nike also had buildings to worship
- athens has walls that would surround the city for protection and defense
- building were used for many reasons such as praise and worship buy and sell itens drama education and law making
the parthenon
- the famous parthenon building is to worship the great gooddess athena
- a temple o hornor and praise
- celebrate the ending of the athens war with persia.
the agora
- towns people would come there to buy or sell there goos with each other
- marketplace
- food lettuce, onions, olive oil
house items, furniture chairs sofa pottery
the theather of dionysus
- was meant for dramatic plays
social life
-many big events
-pure comidy
-actor of you watched.
gymnaium
- children would go to get educated
- 6 ot 7 left home to go to school
- boys and girls were seperate
- parents had to pay got the private schools
- big kids all went
pnyx
- athenians would go to this building to gather around and decide on the laws and rules of the town
key players
of art work
percles plan for the athens was to get the greatest grecced architetrs
socrates , plat, aristotle,
soctates
-lived from 470 to 399 bc
-son of a sculptor
-served in the athenian army during the clash with sarta
he was short and stout and not very handsome
plato
- lived from 437 to 347
socrates prized students in philosophy
aristocles was his real name
-priates captured him and his friend tried to buy him back
aristole
384 322
born in small greek colony called stagira
he was teacher of 13 year old alexander for for years
in 1332 he went to athens
military and delian league
phlanx
- used in the battle of marathon around 500 bc
- one major down side to the phalanx is its used against caalry
- the horses in the cavaley could wuickly ride around the shalanx and attack the weal side
- athenians used mountains and natural habitat to protect
naval warfare
- athens used vaval warfare during the peloponnsian war
- shipped grain and food in to city
- used ships called trrime
- fought by ramming and bording enemy ships
major naval force
key players
- pericles
- political, dempcrate
- general
- athenian
- ruled athen from 461 - 429
- led victories in the peloponnesian and persian war
socrates
- philosopher
- athenian
- scrutinized
athens, praised sparta
- not well liked for that reason
plato
-student of scrates
- wrote the dialogues that contain most of soctates ideans
aristole
- student of plato
-teacher to alenander the great
aremides
- well know mathematcian
- first to calculate pie
pythagoras
- developed the pytagorean theaorem
what was it?
coalition of greel stares and athenians
found in 478
under the control of athens
hq was in delos
what did it do
goals
- free lonian greeks from persia
- protect aegean sea
-use sea power
- athens was the leaser
- persia was run out of the aegean sea
persian war
-major battles: marathon, thermoplyae and salamis
Marathon
25000 persians met 10,00 athenians
persians fled after hours of fighting
around 6,00 persians died while ther were very few athenians
thermopylae
- 7,000 greeks and 300 spartans
-stood up to the persians for a long time
-persians found a way around mountain
-spartans let greeks flee ans stayed o fight
- all 300 died
salamis
-greeks abandoned athens
-fought with their naval forces
-destroyed most of persians fleep
-formed the selians league
peloponnesian
- broke our in 431 and went until 404
battle of pylos
-425 bc
athenian nava forces were out attecking zacynthus
-spartan troops decied to attck walled city called pylos
-over 2,000 spartan troops
-tried attecking sea side wall
-spartans failed to capture pylos before the athenians naval fleet could return
weaponry and armor
-swords
-iron knives compared to bronze knives
-arrowhead
-sling bullets-stell and clay
- shields-bronze
-archery
-spears
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