We are finishing the movie The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization. Here are the notes I took:
- Darius is the great Persian king
- Themistocles is an example of democracy
- Themistocles learned his skills at the agora
- Thought Persians were still a danger and they were going to harder to beat
- Triremp state of the art ancient ship
- an 170 oars men in 3 level
- narrow, fast ship; they were very expensive
- wouldn't be able to get it if they didn't find sliver
- Themistocles said that they should save the money to buy ships
- 486 B.C. Darius died
- Xeres, his son, took his spot
- Xeres began to gather his army
- Rumors began to leak at to Athens
- over 2,000 men and they were ready to march
- Terror gripped Athens
- They turned to their
- The oracle of Delphi- at center of Greece which was considered center of the world; the naval stone of the the world
- It is build around a mountain with a spring
- asked: what they could do to save themselves?
- answer: run
- Themistocles sent them back to the oracle
- asked same thing
- answer: the wooden wall will not fail
- Themistocles ordered the evacuation of Athens
- ordered the men to met at Salamis
- Xeres entered the city; the people had already abandoned it
- They burned the city
- Persians gathered a force 4 times bigger than Athens
- Themistocles wants to fight at the Straits of Salamis
- It's a narrow pathway in between Athens and Salamis
- Athenians spent the night rowing
- Went into battle on the sea
- Xeres watched the battle on the shore
- The Persians lost 200 ships
- The Greeks won once again
- They had defeated the greatest empire of the day
- After the battle it was a new dawn for Athens
- delian league- Athens' empire
- Athens was the big trading place
- democracy helped them a lot
- Every year they banished one person
- they would write a name on a vase and place it in a pot
- the person's name who came up most was to be banished
- Themistocles felt he was being under attack
- Themistocles was banished
- he wandered from state to state and died in Persia
- Greeks were looking for a leader
- Pericles knew what Athens wanted because he was born into a family like everyone else
- Pericles wanted all the money to make Athens the best city ever
- wanted a new temple for the goddess, Athena called the Parthenon
- building complete in 15 years
- one of the most glorious symbol of Athens empire
- 40 foot statue of Athena when you walked in
- gold, jewels all over it
- a billion dollar work in modern day money
- frieze- most famous, a craving around the Parthenon
- 2 inches thick around; where regular people- the farmers, people of the war
- Aspasia is someone Pericles was with even though he was married
- Pericles treated Aspasia as an equal
- world first theater- where entertainment came from
- it was very loud- they would boo and drive the actors off the stage if they didn't like the play
- They cried if they liked it
- Greeks invented drama- tragedies and comedy
- Had a play twice a year
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