This article justifies that fifth century B.C. was the golden age of Greece. Fifth century B.C. was the Golden Age of Greece, an Age of Illumination. Athens became the intellectual capital of Greece. The individual initiative that the Athenian democracy had given rise to not only showed itself in politics and development of economy but in the field of creative [...]
Read this article to learn about the art and architecture of Periclean Greece. “Greek art is reason made manifest. Greek painting is the logic of line, Greek sculpture is a worship of symmetry, Greek architecture is a marble geometry.” The Greeks had an extraordinary feeling for pro portion and order, for form and rhythm, for precision and clarity. To a [...]
Greece in Fifth Century B.C.! The common culture of the Greeks began assuming distinctive forms and elegance since early sixth century before the birth of Christ and the speculations of the Ionian philosophers by the end of the century or from the beginning of the fifth century B.C. had produced an intellectual movement which permeated the whole of Greece. Shelley [...]