Spartan Constitution in the Fifth Century B.C! Noted for their conservatism, the Spartans retained the old order of things that existed in the days of Homer, even in the fifth century B.C. The most striking of these survivals was the dual kingship. The mechanism of the Spartan constitution comprised four distinct parts two Kings, Council called Gerusia,. Assembly called Apella [...]
This article justifies that fifth century B.C. was the golden age of Greece. Fifth century B.C. was the Golden Age of Greece, an Age of Illumination. Athens became the intellectual capital of Greece. The individual initiative that the Athenian democracy had given rise to not only showed itself in politics and development of economy but in the field of creative [...]
Read this article to learn about the art and architecture of Periclean Greece. “Greek art is reason made manifest. Greek painting is the logic of line, Greek sculpture is a worship of symmetry, Greek architecture is a marble geometry.” The Greeks had an extraordinary feeling for pro portion and order, for form and rhythm, for precision and clarity. To a [...]