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
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