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During its Golden Age (500-430
B.C.
), Greece set the tone for all of Western civiliza-
tion to follow. Democracy, theater, literature, mathematics, philosophy, science, gyros, art,
and architecture, as we know them, were virtually all invented by a single generation of
Greeks in a small town of maybe 80,000 citizens.
• Roughly in the middle of Room 13 is a Z-shaped glass case marked #8. On the upper
shelf, find a...
Black-Figured Amphora with Achilles Killing Penthesilea
Greeks poured wine from jars like this one, which is painted with a legend from the Trojan
War. The Trojan War (c. 1200
B.C.
)—part fact but mostly legend—symbolized Greece's
long struggle to rise above war and chaos.