The End Of The Athenian Golden Age

The Athenian Golden age refers to a period in which there was great prosperity in the City if Athens. And the events that marked this age were characterized by Athens becoming master of the Greek city-states, thereby attracting the best architects, scientists, and philosophers. In that regard, Athens became a nation of people, of thinkers that were lovers of the arts, makers of some of the finest music, plays, and philosophical ideas to date. Athens attained such power following the victories it achieved over the Persians during the Persian War. Its allies the Spartans and other Greek city-states did contribute to this victory. Athens did acquire large amounts of wealth from the spoils of war. In addition, its allies were bringing in money. And this prompted Athens to act
This overcrowding soon led to the death of pericles, who was considered the greatest leader of Athens. Following the death of Pericles, there was a change in leadership and this change was swift from good leadership to bad leadership, and eventually to a crumble of the empire. Owing to the fact that Sparta was considered to be a land power, while Athens was considered to have naval power, Pericles did rely heavily on Athens naval power for protection and its ability to attack the watery coasts of Sparta. However, in the midst of this war, there was a change of plan and Sparta chose to raid Attica (Butler, 2007). As the Spartans marched in, the rural population was all pulled into Athens' Long walls and left to watch Sparta burn their countryside to the ground. Pericles' line of thinking was such that he believed Athens could wait on for a while until Sparta got tired and quit. The waiting did take quite some time and this is when overcrowding presented itself. Many people who had come from the countryside had no where to stay. Therefore, the Athenian Golden Age begun to