Friday, March 11, 2011

movie

  • pandemonium 
  • Athenian nobleman 
  • He saw ordinary people needed freedom
  • born around 570 BC
  • he had been taught he was an aristocrat 
  • they controlled everything
  • Athens
  • reading/ writing rare skill
  • no medicine
  • life span 15 years
  • didn't have the type of government you would expect
  • Spartans brought up from birth to be soldiers
  • separated from families
  • lives structured around discipline and war
  • cloaks dyed red to not show any other's blood
  • food sucked
  • Oddesy 
  • mythical figures
  • war like figures- heros
  • story of tyrant came to power was preserved
  • noble baring rode into Athens
  • beside him was tall beautiful woman, she pretended she was a goddess
  • demanded he was ruler
  • he was excellent politian  
  • turned to common Athenians for support 
  • reduced taxes
  • introduced free loans
  • bounded on east by persian empire, south by egypt, west romans
  • greeks scattered 
  • potters- worst
  • greek- millions of dollars