Greeks the movie 3/21

• PERICLES- was the leader of Athens during hight of Athens. and brought democracy into its climax. 
• The started to build the Parthenon. Pareclese was directly involved with the Parthenon. 
• It is the symbol for Athens. They had a 40 ft high sculpture of Athena. The parthenon freeze which is a wall of sculpted figures of Athenians. 
• They were built on the Acropolis
• He knew was the people of Athens wanted 
• Wanted to make the greatest city possible. 
• Aspsia was beautiful forgeing born wrote Pericles speeches 
• Greeks invented Drama and would make fun of people of present day  and with also tragedies 
• Edipiss was a character in a story who married his mother and killed his father. He solved the riddle of the sphinx. He did his mom so he ripped out his eyes 
• Athens 431 BC Pereclese presents Athenians with war with city state Sparta. This was a bad idea because Spartans have a frees om military force. 
• Athens power laid in there Navy and Spartans power was on land. they would abandon Athens and hide. Perclese would use the Navy to attack the Spartans by the sea. The are gonna trap Sparta and cut them off from there supplies