Idle Ages / Ages / Classical Athens
Classical Athens is age 22 on the Idle Ages ladder, set in 508 BCE. You unlock it with coins the ages below it earned. From there it produces on its own cycle, with its own upgrade costs and its own four heroes.
| Position | Age 22 of 40 |
|---|---|
| Date | 508 BCE |
| Legendary | Socrates |
| Automation | Needs Aspasia at level 5, after which the age produces with the app closed for up to 8 hours |
| Heroes | Socrates, Pericles, Agnodice, Aspasia |
Socrates raises every age you own at once. The other three raise this one. All four carry a piece of written history that unlocks as you level them.
Legendary
Socrates wrote nothing, charged nothing, and claimed to know nothing - yet became the father of Western philosophy by relentlessly asking Athenians questions they could not answer. Sentenced to death for "corrupting the youth," he refused escape and drank the hemlock among his students, arguing philosophy to the last minute.
Raises output in every age you own, and most of all in their own. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Pericles led Athens through its golden age, building the Parthenon and championing the world’s first democracy. For thirty years the Athenians elected him again and again; his funeral oration - "we are a pattern to others rather than imitators" - is still quoted at state funerals today.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Epic
Agnodice, legend says, cut her hair and dressed as a man to study medicine when Athens barred women from the profession. Her practice thrived; jealous rivals put her on trial, where she revealed her secret. The women of Athens stormed the court in her defense - and the law was changed.
Raises the output and production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add.
Rare Manager, level 5
Aspasia ran the most famous intellectual salon in Athens, where Socrates himself came to talk. Partner of Pericles and mocked by comedians for her influence, she was said to have taught rhetoric to the greatest orators of the age - a foreign-born woman shaping the voice of Athens.
Raises the production speed of their own age. Every level doubles what they add. Levelling Aspasia to 5 is what automates Classical Athens.
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