What was the golden age in acient Greece?

Answer 1

After being part of a coalition of Greek city-states which repelled the Persian invasion in 480-479 BCE, Athens headed an anti-Persian defence confederation of the independent Greek cities around the eastern Mediterranean, and in enforcing contributions from them, turned them into an empire. When the Persian threat disappeared in a peace in 449 BCE, Athens kept the contributions going by force and used them to glorify Athens (Parthenon etc) and put half its population on the public payroll.

This era of prosperity attracted the best architects, artists, sculptors, poets, philosophers etc and created a society and environment we call the Golden Age - the second half of the 5th Century BCE. Unfortunately the Athenians became too cocky and oppressive, engaged in a 27-year war with the Spartan confederation, lost, lost its empire, and so lost the money it extorted from its empire which had financed its Golden Age.

Answer 2

The Golden Age in Greece was supposedly the age when the pieces of modern civilization were started. It occurred between 500 and 300 BC, during which great advances in the arts, philosophy, literature, and architecture.

Answer 3

After defeating the Persian invasion in 480-479 BCE, Athens headed an anti-Persian defence confederation of the independent Greek cities around the eastern Mediterranean, and in enforcing contributions from them, turned them into an empire. When the Persian threat disappeared in a peace in 449 BCE, Athens kept the contributions going by force and used them to glorify Athens (Parthenon etc) and put half its population on the public payroll.

This era of prosperity attracted the best architects, artists, sculptors, poets, philosophers etc and created a society and environment we call the Golden Age - the second half of the 5th Century BCE. Unfortunately the Athenians became too cocky and oppressive, engaged in a 27-year war with the Spartan confederation, lost, lost its empire, and so lost the money it extorted from its empire which had financed its Golden Age.

Answer 4

Athens had a golden age when it converted the Delian League of cities it lad against the Persian Empire into an empire of its own. It used the money it extorted from this empire on beautification of Athens, new building, the arts, philosophy, putting half its population on the public payroll. People flocked from other cities to parasite on this ill-gotten wealth. However the 180 cities being milked in tax to pay for this didn't think it golden at all - their gold (silver) paid for it.

Answer 5

The Golden age of Greece, occurred around 500 to 300 BC and was a time of peace and prosperity.

Answer 6

An age of prosperity , harmony, and peace in Greece.

Answer 7

500 to 300 bc