March 18, 2011

More notes on the movie:

1. Themistocles was one of Athens greatest leaders, he used the most advanced weapon around, the trireme.
2. The trireme is a huge boat that was very expensive and used as a weapon at sea
3. Themistocles wanted to build a fleet against Aegea not Persia
4. Themistocles built a fleet of 200 triremes
5. The Persian King Darius died and Xerxes, his son took over
6. In 480 B.C. the Persian army set out for Greece
7. Oracle at Delphi- where the Greeks went to discover their future
8. Delphi was considered to be the central of the universe
9. Delphi warned them that they were coming and to run 
10. When they came back the second time she said that the wooden wall only will not fail
11. Themistocles had his troops meet at Salamis 
12. The Persians went onto the Athenians acropolis and burned it
13. The Persians gathered a fleet 4 times as big as the Greeks forces
14. Xerxes wants to fight in a narrow body of water between Salamis and Athens, but it would be hard to get the Persians there because they were very intelligent
15. The Persians lost and the Greeks won at Salamis
16. The battle at Salamis broke the Persian army
17. The Athenians had control over the military in the eastern Mediterranean 
18. Athens had dominate power in less then one generation
19. Pebbles decided everything around the government in Athens
20. People took a vote on who could be kicked out of the city
21. Themistocles was apostrophized/ kicked out because he had too much power
22. Themistocles died in Persia while in exile
23. Pericles was the king to step in after Themistocles, he was the king during the best time in Athens
24. Pericles wanted to make a city whose greatness would be admired
25. Pericles wanted to build a Parthenon right in the center of Athens as a tribute to Athena
26. It took 15 years to build the Parthenon
27. The statue is now lost ( 40 feet tall, gold and ivory)
28. The Parthenon Frieze went around the inner wall of the temple and its only a few inches thick
29. The monuments that Pericles built for his people are still on top of the acropolis
30. Pericles divorced his wife and went off with Aspsia who was an escort
31. People joke that Aspsia actually wrote Pericles speeches
32. They had tragedies and comedies
33.