From about 500 to 300 BC, the city of Athens became the most important intellectual centre in Greece, numbering among its scholars Plato and Aristotle. Although neither is remembered primarily as a mathematician, both helped to set the stage for the ensuing ‘golden age of Greek mathematics’ in Alexandria.
The Acropolis, the ‘highest city of ancient kings’ was devastated by a Persian invasion in 480 BC. Inspired by Pericles, the city was rebuilt and the magnificent Parthenon was added, being completed in 432 BC. Constructed on mathematical principles, it is surrounded on all sides by towering columns of white marble.
[Gabon 1978; Greece 1927, 1983]
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