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Golden Age of Athens
Vocabulary Terms
Term | Definition |
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Golden Age | A period of peace and wealth |
Pericles | A great Athenian leader who ignored his people. |
Acropolis | A hill above Greek cities where temples would be built. |
Parthenon | Greece's most famous temple built for Greek goddess Athena. |
Myth | A traditional story that helps to explain a culture’s beliefs. |
Architecture | The art of designing buildings. |
Sculpture | The art of creating three dimensional figures from materials such as stone, wood, and clay. |
Socrates | A man who encouraged people who question the things they thought they knew. |
Plato | A man who took after Socrates after Socrates died. He mentored another great philosopher named Aristotle. |
Panathenaic Games | A time where Greeks would compete in events. |
Olympics | A time when the Greeks would have a truce to not fight on this event. |