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he'd killed was his father and that his new wife was in fact his mother, Oedipus ripped
out his eyes and exiled himself.
Athena
The Golden Age
In the 5th century BC, Athens had a cultural renaissance that has never been equalled -
in fact, such was the diversity of its achievements that modern classical scholars refer to
it as 'the miracle'. The era started with a vastly outnumbered Greek army defeating the
Persian horde in the battles of Marathon and Salamis and ended with the beginning of the
inevitable war between Athens and Sparta. It's often said that Athens' 'Golden Age' is
the bedrock of Western civilization and had the Persians won, Europe today would have
been a vastly different place. Like Paris in the 1930s, Athens was a hotbed of talent. Any
artist or writer worth their salt left their hometown and travelled to the great city of wis-
dom to share their thoughts and hear the great minds of the day express themselves.
