Golden Age Of Athens Essay

While all essays and research papers are always have to do with few points of a whole big subject, I decided in my essay to have it general and give some information here and there about the Golden Age of Athens. Will talk about what happened in the Golden Age of Athens, how it looked like before it even started. Will talk about some of the famous people that were well known during that period of time and some of the things that they were famous with. First, the determination of a culture’s golden age is by the time the culture is at its best overall condition. It had built a lot of things; it has good trading, discovers new educational methods in science and math and invents a lot of stuff, and is also rich.

Before the Golden Age of Athens,

After winning a victory over the Persians for one more time, the Greeks have decided that they needed to form an association like to develop the mutual protection of Greece. All people who entered the association had to pay fees to help paying off costs. The treasury of the association was located on the island of Delos, for which the association or the League was named. By the right time that the Greeks were so insistent to make the defensive alliance works, they fastened the agreement by throwing a piece of iron into the sea, and pledged to support each other until it goes back on the surface. And here we can tell that Athens' Golden Age moved upward from its use if the funds of the anti-Persian League (Delian League) for its own advantage and profit after it switched the League into a virtual empire of its own. The funds were redirected from their original purpose and used to magnify the Athens. They put half the population on the public payroll. The money sponsored the arts, bought buildings, philosophy, helped in literature and science and brought up the living standards of the city, also attracted most of the talented people from all over different cities in