Question

Athens was called The School of Hellas by _________.
A.Plato
B.Socrates
C.Pericles
D.Draco

Answer 1

Hint: Athens is the capital of Greece. It was also in the center of ancient Greece, a strong culture and empire. The city is still dominated by the 5th-century BC landmarks, including the Acropolis, a hilltop citadel topped by ancient buildings such as the Colonnaded Parthenon Temple. The Acropolis Museum, along with the National Archeological Museum, preserves paintings, vases, jewelry, and more from ancient Greece.

Complete answer: The city of Athens, Greece, with its famous Acropolis, has come to symbolise the entire country in popular imagination, and not without reason. Athens started as a small, Mycenaean village, and grew to become a city that at its height, embodied the best of Greek virtues and enjoyed such prominence that the Spartans refused to sack the city or enslave its inhabitants, even after the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
During the early Middle Ages, the city suffered a decline, then recovered under the later Byzantine Empire, and was relatively prosperous during the Crusades era (12th and 13th centuries), benefiting from Italian trade. After a time of sharp decline under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, Athens resurfaced in the 19th century as the capital of the independent and self-governing Greek state.
Athenian society of the time (roughly 450 to 399 BCE) valued education for boys highly, and their reputation for a high standard of education made the comparison a natural one. Most boys, even from poor families, went to school from ages seven to 14 and learned grammar, music and gymnastics. This was an ideal democratic city state in Greece. It had monarchy in the beginning and later had developed into oligarchy. The age of Pericles is called the Golden Age of Athens. During the time of Pericles, art, literature, science, philosophy and other fields of knowledge flourished. As a result of this Athens was called The School of Hellas by Pericles. Philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle belonged to Athens.

Thus, the answer is option C: Periclese

Note: 'Hellas' is the term we Hellenes (Héllēnes, Greeks) use when referring to our country; more literally, 'Hellas' means 'Greece' in Hellenica (Greek language). Athens, the modern Greek town of Athínai, the ancient Greek town of Athēnai, the historic city and capital of Greece. Many of the philosophical and artistic ideas of Classical Civilization emerged there and the city is widely considered to be the birthplace of Western civilization.