Athens Golden Age: Pericles and the Making of Classical Greece

Athens in the fifth century BCE stood at the center of a revolution in human thought, art, and political life. From the ashes of the Persian Wars rose a city whose ambition reshaped the Greek world and whose ideas would echo through centuries of history. Under the leadership of Pericles, Athens transformed its sacred hill—the Acropolis—into a landscape of temples and monuments that symbolized the ...