Ancient Greece Research Paper

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There were many significant achievements during the golden age of Athens, Greece. During the golden age, Greece experienced significant advances in architecture and philosophy. A golden age is an idyllic, time of peace, prosperity, and happiness one country may experience throughout its history. Greece, located along the Mediterranean Sea, consisted of many small islands and a main peninsula. Greece has more than 100 islands. Roughly 80% of Greece is covered with mountainous, hilly land, making civilization very limited. With much rocky and uneven soil, the Greeks relied heavily on imports of grains, and other foods from other regions around the Mediterranean because the Greeks had such little room to farm, with only a small portion of Greece…show more content…
Some city states such as Sparta, or Athens. Greek summers where hot and dry, along with wet winter months. Instead of snow, unless you were on the top of a mountain in Greece, you would usually experience rainfall in the winter months. Rainfall ranged from 20 to fifty inches each year. During the Greek golden age, the Greeks created masterpieces of architecture. They designed and shaped columns to support buildings and temples. There are three types of columns, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. Greek columns began with Doric, The simplest of the three, the Doric column symbolized strength and solidarity, to Ionic, which was more graceful and refined to the Corinthian being the most complex. The Greeks rarely ever used Corinthian columns, “perhaps because they felt that its ornamentation detracted from the simplicity they believed a temple required. According to a Greek legend, the Corinthian capital traces its roots to the city of Corinth, in central Greece” (Baker 1). The Corinthian column does resemble a basket or…show more content…
Greeks where advanced in philosophy which helped to create the successful society they lived in because they had well thought out thoughts. There were three main important philosophers during this time in the Greek golden ages. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all changed the fate of Greece forever with their ideas, schools, and philosophies. These three philosophers were students to one another at one point in their life. According to Socrates, “the only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance”. Socrate was a philosopher who spent considerable time thinking about moral issues. He was intrigued by the question “what is good?” It was Socrates mission to encourage people to question everything in the same manner he himself once had done. It was this philosophy that led him to believe, and urge others to believe, that the “Unexamined life is not worth living” (Calliope 1). Today, Socrates questions still influence the world! In addition, a philosopher named Plato, born in 427 B.C. opened an academy in Athens to teach young people about politics and life to prepare them to become responsible public officials. Plato believed that within each person, there was a soul that existed in a perfect world and knew the perfect good, the perfect beautiful, and the perfect just. Plato believed he could influence the young leader and perhaps help change the face of politics. ”Plato lived his life exactly
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