Greatness of Athens

I. The Rise of Athens
    A. Commerical and manufacturing greatness
        1. colonies
        2. shipping and navy
        3. pottery and metalworks

    B. Social stresses of economic growth
        1. The landless farmer

    C. Development of democracy
        1. weakened aristocracy
        2. tyrants
        3. equality

    D. Defeat of Persian Invasion
        1. Athens forms Delian League

II. Democratic empire
    A. Pericles, hero of the democracy
        1. builds Athenian empire
        2. moves treasury of Delian League to Athens
        3. Acropolis rebuilt

    B. Pericles's funeral oration (as rendered by Thucydides)
        1. Athens is the ideal polis
        2. Periclean ideals:

III. Flowering of Art and Drama
    A. Sculpture: Beauty of the ideal
        1. Doryphoros ("Spear-bearer")
        2. Vital balance

    B. Architecture: proportion and balance in form and space
        1. Acropolis and Parthenon
        2. Vital balance

    C. Tragic drama: moral harmony and balance
        1. The greatness and limitations of humanity
        2. Vital balance

IV. The Fall of Athens
    A. The Peloponnesian War
        1. Defeat of Athenian defensive and naval strategy

    B. New age of history and philosophy
        1. New questions in a time of war and defeat     
        2. Greeks had not yet discovered happiness