Golden Age Athens

1. GREECE
GOLDEN AGE

2. Before the golden Age
The ancient Greeks who didn't
know as much as we know today
created many myths in order to
explain everything-thus,the
Gods- ruled the world.

3. Olympian Gods
●Zeus
●Poseidon
●Hades
●Hestia
●Hera
●Ares
●
●Apollo
●Athena
●Aphrodite
●Hermes
●Artemis
●Hephaestus

4. Regimes in Archaic Greece
●Greeks leave their villages and gather to towns
●The desire for a better life and peoples' struggles
brought many changes to the regime:
●Royalty
●Aristocracy
●Tyranny
●Democracy

5. The evolution of regimes in ancient Greece
Aristocrats
noblemen
Rich
tyranny
People
Democracy
-
King

6. Solon
The citizens of Athens voted about
important matters and elected a number
of people to execute their decisions.
(Democracy)

7. Clesthenes
(The establisher of Democracy)
Created the parliament of fifty(500).All
Athenian citizens took part in the
gatherings and voted the laws
themselves.

8. Olympic Games
●Common belief in Gods and common athletic games
brought Greeks together
●Greeks gather in Olympia to prove their abilities to
running,disk,javelin,wrestling,chariot races.
●Historians used to measure time before Christ on the
basis of Olympic games.
●The first Olympic games were held in 776b.c.

9. The Olympic games were devoted to Zeus