Age+of+Pericles



Bryce York 9/10/07 S.S Mrs. Landrum

The age of Pericles was the term to show the end of the Persian wars to about the death of Pericles himself. During this time many art pieces came around this time but we’ll get to that later. Pericles promoted the theater so in this time it reached its best height for more check the next part of this report. Now if you look below you will see the outline made for the rest of the project. 1 Pericles’s life a. His career b. life 2. Art a. theatre b. ceramics

Pericles was statesmen, orator, and a general of Athens during the golden age (a.k.a The Age of Pericles). For this we will be talking about his achievements as a general. Pericles for more than 20 years had led many expeditions mostly naval ones. Pericles was a strategist in the Athens army. With his strategic knowledge he led Athenians to victory. Pericles was born in the deme of Cholargos north of Athens in 495 B.C. He was the son of Xanthippus who was a politic. Pericles was from a family of wealth and nobility. In 470 B.C he got into politics and two years later he presented the Persae of Aeschylus at the Greater Dionysia as a litugy showing he was a wealthy man of Athens. Art and other things like theatre were at their best because of Pericles’s promotion of it. Theatre writers such as Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and Sophocles were the big dramatic writers. Aeschylus wrote about mythological thymes. The others had more religious and political themes. Ceramics were at an abundant amount around this time. Some of the pieces have been found today and are preserved with high quality. It shows how great the sculptors of this time were.