Pericles

Ruled Athens, pro-democracy

Was leader of Athens at the height of there wealth, and artistic elegance.

His job was to build a city that was fit to rule an empire.

U decided to built a great monument on the acropolis.

Called the Parthenon, a temple to Athena.

I billion dollars in today's terms was spent.

Pericles was directly involved in the building of it.

Took 15 years to build.

Was and still is the greats monument in Athens

there was a huge statue of Athena

There was frieze that showed the Athens people around the inside of the Parthenon .

Pericles wanted Athens to become the most educational city.

Aspasia was Pericles's companion.

She was a prostitute

Athens started the theater

And was most know for tragedies

Like the King who gauged his own eyes out because he married his mother.

theaters were built in every big city in Greece.

Pericles began to plan a new adventure.

He wanted to make Athens the know leader of the Mediterranean.

He wanted War with the only other Greek city-state that had the same power as Athens

Which was Sparta , the Athenians agreed to fight.

Hubris- cocky, egotistical, etc.

Pericles was hubris.

He wanted to just kill Sparta for power.

He had a plan

The Athenians got supplies by the navy.

And they hid behind the city walls.

Pericles thought they would win because they went all out with Navy.

Socrates live in Athens at this time, and he was starting a revolution of thinking.

The Greeks started thinking about reasons.

These Greeks started to use mathematics and science.

Socrates loved Athens, his life was spent questioning the assumptions of Athenian life.

Sparta was burning the farms of Sparta, wile the Athenians was in the walls of Athens

One of the ship brought plague.

Everyone was close together, and the plague was spread fast, and killed 1/3 of the population.

Pericles died of plague.