Peloponneskoy War
Highest point of its political power reached the ancient Athens during the reign of Pericles. Pericles of Athens was a strategist for a pretty long time. He was a great patron of art and it was during his reign were erected the main monuments of Acropolis. Those for whom travel to Athens each year millions of tourists. However, the seed of discord and mutual jealousy between Athens and Sparta grew tyazhaleyshuyu war between the two cities, in which involved almost all of Greece. In that war was not the winner. Or rather was – it's the Persians, who had failed to conquer Greece by force of arms, but that the Greeks themselves gave their independence. After Peloponneskoy War in spite of the political crisis in Athens continued flourishing of the arts and philosophy. This was the century of Plato, Xenophon, Praxiteles, Demosthenes, and Lycurgus. Pnyx hill in Athens once again became the main platform of democracy, Plato founded in Athens his famous school, and raised the Greek philosophy, Aristotle in degree absolute. However, this was the last glimpses of the […]