Today's Frame- Classical Greece
"Classical Greece", "Golden Age Greece", "Periclean Athens"... these are ways to describe the ascendance of Greek civilization during the 5th century BCE.
- What conditions enabled Athens to rise above other city-states and become a center of cultural achievement? (think art, architecture, philosophy, politics, theater, math, engineering, etc.)
- How was war a defining factor for Greek civilization, shaping it immeasurably by uniting and fracturing Greek city-states and cultivating a fierce sense of competition, arete, and ultimately, hubris?
