![]() ![]() ![]() Its army and navy dominated the Aegean after the defeat of the Persians, and the tribute money offered to the conquering Athenians built the Acropolis, site of the Parthenon, as well as the public buildings that housed and glorified Athenian democracy. Here, too, democracy took root and flourished, with a government ruled entirely by and for its citizens.ĭuring the fifth century B.C., Athens presided as the richest and most advanced of all the city-states. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle wrote and taught in Athens, and their ideas gave birth to Western philosophy. The Athens Sophocles knew was a small place - a polis, one of the self-governing city-states on the Greek peninsula - but it held within it the emerging life of democracy, philosophy, and theater. Ritual and Transcendence in the Oedipus Trilogy.The Power of Fate in the Oedipus Trilogy.Summary and Analysis: Oedipus at Colonus. ![]()
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