What makes the Golden Age

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What makes the Golden Age golden?

• We along regard a man who takes no interest in
  public affairs not as harmless, but as a useless
  character.
• Pericles funeral
• oration 431 B.C.

www.newgenevacenter.org/ reference/greece2.htm
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The Golden Age lasted from

• 460 - 429 B.C.

and how many years is that???
31 Years
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Three goals of Pericles

• Protection
• Beautification
• Democracy

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Three goals of Pericles
Protection
Beautification
Democracy
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Protection

• Main goal protect Athens from foreign invasion
• Built up a very powerful navy
• Construction of Long Walls
• Stretched five miles from Athens to its harbor
• Built in 458 B.C.E.
• Constructed to ensure food supply to Athens would
  not be cut off

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Beautification

• Encouraged building projects, the arts and
  literature
• Rebuilt temples on the Acropolis (using the
  Delian Leagues money)
• Tried to make Athens a model city

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"Future ages will wonder at us, as the present
age wonders at us now."
- Pericles
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Democracy

• Citizens who served in government were now paid
• Spread power more evenly between the rich and the
  poor
• During the Golden Age as many as 20,000 citizens
  were paid for their service

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