Movie Continued

In class on Friday we watched more of the movie.  In Athens they found a new leader named Pericles. He was the figure associated with bringing Athens to its height of democracy. He wanted Athens to be a great city that was admired. He was born into an aristocrat and wealthy family. Instead of leaving the acropolis as a ruin and memorial to those who died in the war he wanted to rebuild a huge Pythaolan. This building was the most glorious part of Athens. Inside was a 40 foot statue. The statue is lost now but some other things from the building still lasted. The building itself still stands today. Under Pericles Athens flourished. Pericles partner was Esposia. She was a prostitute but had an extraordinary mind. Pericles treated her as an equal and had her participate in talks to important people.  Twice a year Athenians would gather to watch theater and drama.  The most famous stories of the time were called tragedy. Theaters were built in every major Greek city state.In 431 BC Pericles tells Athenians his plan to go to war with Sparta. The Athenians embraced his plan Athens was discerted to a near by town and was going to use its navy to supply there food and to attack Sparta. Socrates was unbelievably ugly, walked Athens barefoot in dirty clothes, interested in only the mind, and he started a revolution on thinking. The revolution started in Babalon. Greeks took the Gods out of the heavens and replaced them with logic when they learned about astronomy. They started charting the stars and Falis wrote the early book of navigation. He was also the first person to measure the height of the pyramids in Egypt. Socrates spent  his days walking and talking with anyone and questioning the assumptions Athenians thought. when Socrates was talking Athens and Sparta fought. Sparta burned the Athenians fields and crops. One year into the war the Athenians ships brought plague into Athens which devastated the city.  It quickly spread throughout the walls and killed over 1/3 of Athens population. The plague killed Pericles in 429 BC.His successors tried to do anything to gain power. The naval leaders won a battle against Sparta and came home and were expecting  fame but were thrown in jail for not picking up men that fell overboard during battle. The war with Sparta lasted over a decade. In 416 BC a proposal to help Sicily be protected against Sparta came to Athens. In 413 a savior arrived in the city and told his barber about how his armies fight was. The Sicilian campaign did not go well because the leaders fought over stradegy and the motivation was selfish.when Athens military power was weakened  the Persians wanted to avenge the Athens. The Persians paid for the Spartans naval fleet to fight against the Athenians.  With Sparta having a naval fleet they blocked Athenian ships form getting food to Athens so the people started to starve.