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The fifth century, the age of Pericles, the era of the widest unfurlment of power of the Athenian empire, and of its decline, is the golden age of Hellenic culture. It is the century during which the glorious temples of the Acropolis arose, when sculpture produced its ever admired, never equalled masterworks, the age also of the great tragic poets Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, of the great historians Herodotus and Thucydides.
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Van Der Waerden, B.L. (1975). The Golden Age. In: Science Awakening I. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1379-0_5
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