WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Greek city-state of Athens reached its Golden Age between 480-404 BCE. This era is also referred to as the Age of Pericles, for the Athenian statesman who led the city from 461 to 429 BCE. During its Golden Age, Athens, Greece was an artistic and intellectual hub.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Age of Pericles was a period of tremendous creativity and learning that peaked in the mid-400s B. C. The Persians had destroyed much of the city during the Persian Wars. So Pericles started a major rebuilding program.

Detailed explanation-3: -The so-called golden age of Athenian culture flourished under the leadership of Pericles (495-429 B.C.), a brilliant general, orator, patron of the arts and politician-”the first citizen” of democratic Athens, according to the historian Thucydides.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pericles grew up in the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens. His family was wealthy and his father, Xanthippus, was a popular general. Because of his family’s wealth, Pericles had some of the best teachers in Athens. He loved to learn and he studied subjects such as music, politics, ethics, and philosophy.