2. Great victory over Persia
Athens becomes the leader of the Delian League
Other city-states pay tribute to Athens for protection

3. Rules Athens from BC
Extended democracy to most adult males having an equal voice
Rebuilds Athens after the war

4. Built BC
Dedicated to the goddess Athena
Used as a treasury & temple

5. Lasting contributions to all aspects of Western Culture
© Students of History

6. Classical Order used in buildings & columns
Doric - simple
Ionic – use of scrolls
Corinthian – ornate & fancy

7. Phidias - greatest of all sculptor Greece
His Statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

8. Herodotus – considered the Father of History
Wrote about the Persian Wars
Thucydides - wrote accurate histories
Wrote about the Peloponnesian War

9. Homer – wrote epic poems
The Iliad and The Odyssey – the story of the Trojan War & Odysseus’ return

10. Aeschylus – the “Father of tragedy”
Sophocles – used well-developed characters in plays like Oedipus and Antigone

11. Archimedes - mathematician & inventor (screw, heat ray)
“Eureka!”
Hippocrates – doctor & namesake of the Hippocratic Oath

12. Euclid – the “Father of Geometry”
Pythagoras – most famous for his Pythagorean theorem about right triangles

13. Socrates – popular philosopher falsely accused and convicted of corrupting the youth
Plato – student of Socrates, argued for a philosopher as king
Aristotle - Plato's best student & well-paid tutor of Alexander the Great

15. Exit Ticket
Which achievements from Athens Golden Age do you think had the biggest influence on the world today? Explain!