The golden age of Athenian culture

[Imperial Dave]

https://x.com/archeohistories/status/1978857961721344225

A little snippet

[stevenneate]

I heard from a certain Xerxes that it was not a Greek Golden Age at all.

[Erpingham]

Strange isn't it. I remember doing Pericles and the Golden Age in my Ancient History A level. One of the great democratic heroes, after whose death Athens went into decline. Yet read it differently and we see a rich man who gets his political opponents exiled, is complicit with the mistreatment of allies, dipping into their defence budgets to produce nice architecture and statues etc.  Sounds positively modern.

[Imperial Dave]

When you put it like that...

[Nick Harbud]

Truly, we live in Golden Times - just ask Donald.... 

[Imperial Dave]

Truly, we live in Orange Times - just ask Donald.... 

There, corrected it for you