<P> Fifth - century Athens is the Greek city - state of Athens in the time from 480 BC - 404 BC . This was a period of Athenian political hegemony , economic growth and cultural flourishing formerly known as the Golden Age of Athens with the later part The Age of Pericles . The period began in 478 BC after defeat of the Persian invasion , when an Athenian - led coalition of city - states , known as the Delian League , confronted the Persians to keep the liberated Asian Greek cities free . After peace was made with Persia in the mid 5th century BCE , what started as an alliance of independent city - states became an Athenian empire when Athens abandoned the pretense of parity among its allies and relocated the Delian League treasury from Delos to Athens , where it funded the building of the Athenian Acropolis and put half its population on the public payroll and maintained dominating naval power in the Greek world . With the empire 's funds , military dominance and its political fortunes guided by statesman and orator Pericles , Athens produced some of the most influential and enduring cultural artifacts of the Western tradition . The playwrights Aeschylus , Sophocles and Euripides all lived and worked in 5th century BCE Athens , as did the historians Herodotus and Thucydides , the physician Hippocrates , and the philosopher Socrates . Athens ' patron goddess was Athena , from whom they derived the name . </P>
<P> Fifth - century Athens is the Greek city - state of Athens in the time from 480 BC - 404 BC . This was a period of Athenian political hegemony , economic growth and cultural flourishing formerly known as the Golden Age of Athens with the later part The Age of Pericles . The period began in 478 BC after defeat of the Persian invasion , when an Athenian - led coalition of city - states , known as the Delian League , confronted the Persians to keep the liberated Asian Greek cities free . After peace was made with Persia in the mid 5th century BCE , what started as an alliance of independent city - states became an Athenian empire when Athens abandoned the pretense of parity among its allies and relocated the Delian League treasury from Delos to Athens , where it funded the building of the Athenian Acropolis and put half its population on the public payroll and maintained dominating naval power in the Greek world . With the empire 's funds , military dominance and its political fortunes guided by statesman and orator Pericles , Athens produced some of the most influential and enduring cultural artifacts of the Western tradition . The playwrights Aeschylus , Sophocles and Euripides all lived and worked in 5th century BCE Athens , as did the historians Herodotus and Thucydides , the physician Hippocrates , and the philosopher Socrates . Athens ' patron goddess was Athena , from whom they derived the name . </P>
when did the golden age of athens start and end
when did the golden age of athens start and end
480 BC - 404 BC
480 BC - 404 BC