HIS 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2.4: Delian League, Steep Hill, Phidias
11 Sep 2019
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An extraordinary range of new artistic and intellectual forms, new ideas, and new ways of understanding the universe took shape in the city over the century that separated. ~ chapter two: the school of greece ~ Part 4: the athenian experiment (490-406 bce: culturally, the athenian experiment succeeded beyond anyone"s dreams. Cleisthenes" leadership from the end of the peloponnesian war. the city"s main road. providing their city with public buildings worth of a great power. It became the site of a council chamber and many other buildings including temples, a prison, and colonnades. Parthenon: not only was it a grand architectural gesture but it was an athenian strongbox for the state"s wealth, the same building campaign created other structures in athens. Rituals: the greeks believed the gods inhabited the temples dedicated to them, the old noble clans of athens produced priests and priestesses who presided over public rituals.
