What city became the center of Greek culture?

Answer 1

Each ancient Greek city was independent, and many different cities made their distinctive contribution to Greek culture.

When we think of the Golden Age of Greece we normally mean primarily Periclean Athens.

Athens had established itself as the leader of a loose confederation of Greek states (the Delian league) which had initially banded together to protect themselves from Persian aggressions. Athens became treasurer of the League, and became rich enough to build the Parthenon and hold religious festivals at which playwrights like Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides competed.

But there was an alternative nexus of power in the west Peloponnese, arranged around Sparta. The Delian League was largely sea-based and led by Athens, but an important group of cities (including Thebes) distrusted what they saw as Athenian empire-building, and formed the Peloponnesian League (under Sparta's hegemony) to oppose Athenian expansion.

The friction between Sparta and Athens eventually erupted in the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) which destroyed first Athens and then Sparta as serious military powers. This in turn left the way open for the rise of Macedonia, and Alexander the great - but that would be a little later.

Answer 2

Acropolis (highest part of Athens) was the was the center of city life in Ancient Athens as concerns politics and religion. As concerns economics, the Agora/Marketplace was the center.

Answer 3

A political and culture place in greece