And our home is, what is in your time, the country of Greece and the hundreds of islands ... This is Athens in its Golden Age; the fifth century BCE - two thousand, five hundred years ago ...

Around 480BC Greece entered a golden age which lasted for 200 years. The people built fantastic temples, made scientific discoveries, wrote plays and founded the first proper democracy.

Greece’s timeless art: Golden Age temples, alluring Venuses, and exuberant Winged Victory. Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged ...