The Parthenon and other such structures re-established Athens's glory and while some Athenians criticized the projects as too lavish, most Athenians enjoyed the benefits of the program. A major benefit to the Athenian people was that there was an abundance of work in the polis. The 5th century BCE was also an important time for Athenian thought...
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"Sophists," paid teachers, taught rhetoric amongst other subjects to wealthy Athenian citizens. The Sophists were criticized by Athenians who thought that Sophists were destroying Greek tradition by emphasizing rationalism over a belief in superstition, however it was this rationalism that became so important to Greek philosophers such as Socrates and Plato, both who belonged to the 5th century BCE...
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athenian trireme Greece back then was a collection of city ?states or polis with his or her own citizens, laws and constitutions. The community was sovereign. Nonetheless when a foreign ruler such as the Persians came to invade Greece, the Greek city states primarily Athens and Sparta united for a common cause to expel the invaders...	12 / 3263
Athenian Democracy The three branches are the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. The legislative branch is responsible for making laws. It is made of the Senate and House of Representatives...	2 / 481
Athenian Drama It has all the same tell-tale signs of the older Greek comedies cited above, but it also expresses a more refined message to the audience and shows a constant plot in which even the parabasis is pertinent to the work itself...	5 / 1256
Athenian Women Did the males in this society consider their wives praiseworthy? In my opinion the answer is no, since a wife who was the husband's property and could be disciplined if she did not conform to the Athenian standards of wife...	3 / 799