Greece : The Real Golden Age Of Greece

The Hellenistic period of Greek art spans from the time of Alexander the Great’s death in 323 to 30 B.C.E. (“Hellenistic Period” 1). However there have been controversies of precisely how long the Hellenistic period lasted. Some argue that from C. 400; to the first century can be classified as “Pre-Hellenistic” (Janson 138-139). “Hellenistic, is a term meant to convey the

together can be a bad action taken by the government. The reason I say this is because, in economic terms, reduction in government spending and increasing tax collection at the same time is like hitting someone with two hammers together. This will only lead to a shift to the left of aggregate demand and is it impossible for the people to pay taxes when the living standards is low. (Figure 2)

The Greeks where the first democracy in the world. There government was made up of six thousand members all of witch where male citizens. They voted on problems that needed to be solved and if a law was to pass a majority vote was needed. Now in the United States also has a democracy. Instead of having six thousand people voting and making the decisions all the people vote on a representative that makes the decisions in the country.

Persia, under King Darius’ rule, was expanding into Western Europe toward Athens, Greece between 522-486 BC. Although the reason for Darius to conquer Greece was ultimately unknown, historians theorize it was likely Darius was attempting to “quell once and for all a collection of potentially troublesome rebel states”. (Ancient History) Despite Darius sending multiple envoys to “call for the Greek’s submissions”, the Greeks responded with violence while the Spartans called for an alliance to defend Greece. Upon Darius’ death in 486 BC, Xerxes became king of the Persian Empire and immediately began focusing his efforts to mobilize his army and conquer Greece.

Athens was one of the greatest cities that existed in ancient Greece. Ranging from a superb navy, to an outstanding belief in knowledge, they were set to succeed from the beginning. Athens was a land of great wealth and prosperity. This led to some of the world’s greatest pieces of art including the Parthenon and the Temple of Zeus. There may have been other cities with good militaries or strong trading partners, but there was never a city that could compete with the great city of Athens. Athens dominated the Ancient world due to their navy, intelligence, democracy, and trade.

Starting soon after the achievements of Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, in 460 BC Greek medicine and treatments began to intensely develop and improve due to anatomical research. Ancient physicians and anatomists such as Erasistratus, Herophilus, Galen, and Andreas Vesalius conducted dissections on live and dead organisms to lead them to make important discoveries about the anatomy, functionality, and overall health of humans. With passing time, each person built off of their influences work by testing validity, expanding on research, and all the meanwhile making their own discovers. However, human dissection and vivisection experiments were limited due to conflicts with ethnics and the ways of the Catholic Church. There was also the

Greece; where many of the most important scientific and philosophical questions are thought to have first arisen, is also considered by most to be the birthplace of demokratia; or as we regard it, democracy. A system for and by the people, democracy has since transcended its early Athenian practice to become the most predominant political system in the world today. Thus wouldn't it be fitting to think that by now, Greece of all places would have found equilibrium throughout every aspect of a system it birthed several thousand years ago? Logically, this would make sense, but a democratic system of governance hasn't always been the preferred practice in Greece. In fact, Greece's democratic model is still relatively young when

Athens had what is known as its Golden Age between 480 and 430 BCE, and while it was a relatively short period of time, it laid the foundations of western civilization.

There are various facts or conditions which I believe the cause of the Athenian Golden Age nemesis, based on what I had learned from my readings. Among those conditions, is the assumption that their downfall is the direct result of what the Greeks call hubris (Canadian Museum, n.d). This is one of the circumstances that I want to emphasize and discuss in this week's Learning Journal.

The fall of Greece didn't happen in a day it took a long period of time like many different civilizations there were many different factors. The biggest factor in Greece's fall like many different cultures is the wars. Wars in general waste time money and good men. When you are war for a long period of time you start to not worry about anything else about winning the war. The ancient Greeks stopped worrying about possible invaders of other countries they just focused on their enemies. They relied on other countries for their food and armor and weapons. They also were more focused on defeating then protecting. The major reason for the fall mostly is the Pelopenesion War. The war between Sparta and Athens and all their allies.

After reading “Golden Age Athens and the Hellenic World,” many things started to spark up in my mind. I never knew that so much was going on many years ago and made a difference to how the world is today. I found two interesting things that really stood out to me. The first one was the fact that the women of Athens were treated differently. According to the book, “Arts & Humanities I 2410,” it states, “Like the metics, the women of Athens were not citizens and did not enjoy any of the privileges of citizenship (Arts & Humanities I 2410). In my opinion, I feel as though women should not have been treated in this matter. It seems like women really didn't have a role to play. Basically, during this time period, women were being taken advantage

The Golden Age of Athens started with the final defeat of Persia in 479 B.C. and the formation of the Delian League in 478 B.C. With the defeat of Persia came a period of prosperity for Athens, a time of great political advancements and many reforms to daily life. Around 461 B.C., a former general named Perikles became the dominant politician of Athens. During his reign (461-429 B.C.) he made Athens a strong and imperialistic city-state, one that forced their allies to remain in the Delian League. Sparta, who had left the league shortly after the defeat of the Persians, had created their own league, the Peloponnesian League. The two leagues signed the Thirty Years ' Treaty, which stated that the two leagues may not fight for thirty years. Athens went against the treaty by helping a city-state who was in the other league. Athens and Sparta declare war against one another shortly after. Homer 's Illiad and Sophocles ' Oedipus Tyrannos had an effect on the citizens of Athens in the respect of fate. In both classics, fate is considered unavoidable and ultimately inevitable. The topic of fate during this time is an important topic to Athenians because they fear that a battle against the Peloponnesian League is inevitable, just like Achilles fate to die in Troy, or Oedipus ' fate to kill his father and marry his mother. In the Athenian perspective, fate is written in stone, and what is fated will happen.

The Classic Age of Greece started in 500 B.C.E to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E during this time Greek city states united to go against the Persian Empire and because of that they defeated the Persians. After the war was over and they no longer needed each other, Greek city-states began fighting against one another. When the Greeks weren’t fighting off Persians they were fighting against each other. The two main city-states against each other were Athens and Sparta. The Athenians hated the Spartans so much they asked foreigners for help before even approaching the fellow Greeks. Political change heavily occurred when Athenian citizens made their city state government completely democratic, using the navy force to establish power over other Greeks. Meanwhile in 509 B.C.E the Roman Republic was founded. Rome’s greatest expansion was not during the empire but during the republic. It began with the legend of their first king Romulus. Romulus was known for commanding his men to kidnap and impregnate the Sabine women to create a larger population. Sabine men charged back attacking Rome to rescue their women. In the end they made peace and merged their population with that of Rome. This action displays an intermingling of cultures and peoples. Unlike Greek city-states, Rome expanded by venturing outside of their territory and intermingling with others whether peacefully or violently thus Rome’s relentless effort in expansion is what made them differ to the Greeks

Anatomy is to physiology, as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events. Medical culture that emphasized the study of anatomy through human vivisection peaked in Alexandria in the 3rd century BC, with Herophilus and Erasistratus- the two primary anatomists of the 3rd century- spearheading this movement. Alexandria was the ideal place to study anatomy and physiology during the Hellenistic period since the research was not tied down by civil laws, taboos, or moralism that prevailed on the Greek mainland. Although the practice of human vivisection was decreed by the priesthood throughout the rest of Egypt and Athens, it was not so in this well-insulated center of learning.

During the Golden Age in Greece, many things changed. Things that changed were the diversity of political views and the social doings of the Athenians and the organization of the Athenians economy. With the Golden Age, many groups worked together that wouldn’t normally interact. The biggest example of that is the relationship between Athenians and their democracy.