A "Golden Age" For Athens?

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rebuilt right after the end of the second Persian
War so Pericles rebuilt temples, public grounds, and other impressive
structures. One of the most famous structures to result from Pericles'
building project was the Parthenon. The Parthenon and other such
structures re-established Athens's glory and while some Athenians
criticized the projects as too lavish, most Athenians enjoyed the benefits
of the program. A major benefit to the Athenian people was that there was
an abundance of work in the polis.

The 5th century BCE was also an important time for Athenian
thought. "Sophists," paid teachers, taught rhetoric amongst other subjects
to wealthy Athenian citizens. The Sophists were criticized by Athenians
who thought that Sophists were destroying Greek tradition by emphasizing
rationalism over a belief in superstition, however it was this rationalism
that became so important to Greek philosophers such as Socrates and Plato,
both who belonged to the 5th century BCE. The Sophists ...

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his wife that the duties needed to support a household consisted of
"indoor" and "outdoor" activities. He then explains to his wife, "And
since labor and diligence are required both indoors and outdoors_it seems
to me that the god prepared the woman's nature especially for indoor jobs
and cares and the man's nature for outdoor jobs and concerns." (Spyridakis
206). This is the general attitude that Athenians held toward their wives.
The Athenian wife was expected to marry and bring a dowry into her
husband's house. Although this dowry was attached to the woman, she was in
no way allowed to control the lands and moneys she might bring to her
husband.. Similarly, women were not allowed ...

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