Athens is a Greek polis or a city- state which was born of glory. it is a city-state that embodies the essence of passion, life, and the hope for a great understanding of life and gave us the opportunity the world we live in today. which is considered though the first democracy, Athens is a nation of people, of thinkers that were lovers of arts, makers of some of the finest music, plays, and every philosophical idea that the world has today. it was after the victories of the Persian war, with the help of their powerful land allies such as the Spartans, and all other Greek city-states that really break through and brought Athens to such great power of opportunity. Athens …show more content…
but it can be claimed that it was their display that led Athens to its destruction. No matter what we demand, this yet doesn't solve the issue of what is a circumstance that led to the end of the Athenian Golden Age. the main circumstance that I understand driven to the conclusion of the Athenian Golden Age was overpopulation which drove to disease. This quickly directed to the death of the such a distinguished leader of Athenians, Pericles, which indirectly affected to a sudden shift of defective leadership and a break of the …show more content…
For, having no house of their own, but inhabiting in the height of summer stifling huts, the mortality among them was dreadful, and they perished in wild disorder. The dead lay as they had died, one upon another, while other hardly alive wallowed in the streets and crawled about every fountain craving for water. The temples in which they lodged were full of the corpses of those who died in them; for the violence of the calamity was such that men, not knowing where to run, grew reckless of all law, human and divine. The customs that had hitherto been observed at funerals were universally violated, and they buried their dead each one as best he could. Many, having no proper appliances, because the death in their household had been so frequent, made no scruple of using the burial-place of others. When one man had raised a funeral pyre, others would come, and throw on their dead first, set fire to it; or when some other corpse was already burning, before the could be stopped would throw their own dead upon it and