notes

Aspasia
- had power in the government
- highly educated, smart, beautiful, prostitute
- fell in love with Pericles
- wrote speeches for Pericles
Isagoris
- last person to dictate Athens
- harsh, corrupt
- got ran out of town
Cleisthenes
- war hero
- people wanted him to rule
- made Athens a democracy
- shared power
- Athens voted to ostracize him
Xerxes and Darius
- wanted to take over Greece
- decided to invade
- Xerxes comes up with new idea to invade them
- Persians set fire to Athens
Pheidippides
- sent to go get help
- ran 26 miles to get help because Persians were invading
- Persians are held off
Strait of Salamis
- tried to get the Persians in a small area
- brilliant strategy and won
Pericles
- in charge for 30 years
- formed the Delian League
- hubres thinking you are better than everyone because you are in charge
- wanted to get rid of Sparta
- plague started to spread
- half of Athens got the plague
- Pericles got the plague
- Persia and Sparta teamed up and took over Athens
Oracle of Delphi
- gave people good advice
- didn't have advice for Athens when Sparta attacked
- flights of birds and end trails of animals