Democracy and Greece’s Golden Age 
      I.        Pericles’s Plan for Athens 
·     Three goals 
1.    Strengthen Athenian democracy 
2.    Hold and Strengthen the empire 
3.    Glorify Athens
1.    Stronger Democracy 
·     Increased the number of public officials
·      Direct Democracy- a form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives 
2.    Athenian Empire 
3.    Glorifying Athens
     II.        Glorious Art and Architecture 
1.    Architecture and Sculpture 
·     Classical Art- values of harmony, order, balance, and proportion became the standard
   III.        Drama and History 
1.    Tragedy and Comedy
·     Tragedy- a serious drama about common themes such as love, hate, war, or betrayal
·     Comedy- contained scene filled with slapstick situations and crude humor
2.    History
   IV.        Athenians and Spartans go to war 
1.    Peloponnesian War
·     Peloponnesian war- between the two city-states began, Athens had the stronger navy 
2.    Sparta Gains Victory
    V.        Philosophers search for truth 
·     Philosophers- thinkers (meaning “lovers of wisdom”
1.    Socrates 
·     Socrates- one critic of the Sophists 
2.    Plato
3.    Aristotle 

·     Aristotle- philosopher who questioned the nature of the world and of human thought, and knowledge. 

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