Greece's Important Golden Age
Definition and explanation
Greece excelled in
Medicine
Disease was a very serious problem for the Greeks. One out of three babies died before they were a year old. Half of all children died before they were ten. And even most people who grew up died in their forties and fifties. So the Greeks used scientific observation and logic to try and find out what caused diseases and what they could do about them. 300s BC Greek doctors started to understand the diseases taking place. The doctors belief was that people were made out of four substances: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm (boogers). And if you were sick it was because you had to much of one of these four substances. The cure was to cut your arm to reduce you're blood. Sometimes they would put leeches on you.
Art
The Acropolis is not only building but several temples built on hills overlooking Athens. The buildings that survive today are the Parthenon built in 447 – 438 BC , the Propylaea built around 437 BC , The Temple of Athena Nike between 427 BC and 423 BC , and the Erechtheum which was begun in 421 BC.
Olympics
Ancient Greeks began the Olympic tradition in 776 BC The Olympics takes place in different countries every. The olympics were dedicated to the gods of Olympus. Only the best and brightest of all of Greece competed.
Plato
Plato is known today as one of the greatest. philosophers of all time. He was born about 429 BC Plato was born in Athens, to a very rich and powerful family. Many of his relatives were in Athenian politics, Plato himself was not.When Plato was a young man, he went to listen to Socrates, and learned a lot from Socrates about how to think and what type of questions to think about. When Socrates was killed in 399 BC, Plato was very upset. Plato began to write down some conversation he had heard Socrates have. Everything we know about Socrates comes from what Plato wrote down.
Socrates
Socrates was the first of the three great Athenian philosophers. Socrates was born in Athens in 469 BC. He was not from a rich family. His father was probably a stone-carver. . When the Peloponnesian war began, Socrates fought bravely for Athens. When Socrates was about in his forties he began to feel an urge to think about the world around him. He asked himself "What is wisdom?" and "What is beauty?" and "What is the right thing to do?" He knew that these questions were hard to answer. So he began to go around Athens asking people he met these questions, "What is wisdom?" , "What is piety?", and so forth. Sometimes the people just said they were busy, but sometimes they would try to answer him. Socrates soon had a group of young men who listened to him and learned from him how to think. Plato was one of these young men.