Introduction to Classical Athens

Delian league

Athenian political and cultural dominance

Art: severe and classical sculpture; black- and red-figure pottery
Architecture: Parthenon, Theseum, Erechtheum
Drama: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes
Philosophy: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

"The age of Pericles"

The three orders of architecture
Doric
Ionic
Corinthian

Architectural terms
façade
pediment
frieze (continuous or with triglyphs and metopes)
capital
column
stylobate

The Parthenon combines Doric and Ionic orders, symbolizing Panhellenism.