principles, such as citizen involvement. Under Pericles' rule, Athens gained beautiful art and

architecture and threw marvelous festivals, banquets, and parades. These attracted merchants,

philosophers, and artisans from all over Greece. He had an imperialistic foreign policy; he wanted

the world to know the supremacy of Athens. Unfortunately, this policy led to the downfall of

Athens. When all the other city-states became angry enough, they revolted and conquered Athens.

Sophocles was one of the greatest playwrights in the history of Greece. He lived during

Athens' Golden Age. He began his career as a playwright when he won the Dionysia, a prestigious

annual theater competition. From there, he wrote 120 plays in 62 years. 24 of his plays won first

place in the Dionysia, and the rest placed second. He made many innovations to the theater,

including a machine to raise and lower people to create the effect of flying and an increased

number of people in the chorus to allow for a more involved plot. He also introduced the idea that

people are responsible for their own actions and control their own fate, so they can't blame the

was hired to write odes for monarchs and nobles until he died.

his wife, he returned to Athens and founded his own school, the Lyceum. He later had to move

philosophical books on government and law that are the basis of our Western world.

interested in philosophy after meeting Socrates. Plato was one of Socrates' students until Socrates

Socrates was an influential Greek philosopher. He actually never wrote anything. He

studied Greek rhetoric. He questioned people on the street, getting them to examine their morals

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