They are looking for a new leader

Pericles

Glorified Athens

Create a city with greatness that everybody would admire

Wanted Athens to be the most rocking city in the whole untied states

Memorial to those killed there

Massive reconstructive

Parthenon

A billion dollars now a days to build

Tribute to Athena

Put everybody to work

20,000 tons of marble

Pericles treated this like it was part of his own project

15 years to build

Gold and ivory is what Athena was build out of

Frieze

Carved marble on the inside of the temple

You saw regular people

2 and a half inches thick

If you were to look up it looked like the were higher than they really are

On top of the Acropolis and when people would look at it they would say wow!

Aspasia, not from Athens, prostitute, 

Pericles divorced his wife and married Aspasia

Pericles treated her as an equal

He totally fell in love with this lady

She was in on all the conversations

Worlds first theater

It was really noisy

Greeks invented drama

Comedy and tragedy

Oedipus

Fell in love with his mother and killed his father

Stabbed his eyes out

He brought Athens to death and destruction  

Hubris

Athens takes war with Sparta

Pericles convinced all Athens to abandon all around the

Peloponnesian war