Notes 

Aspasia

• Highly educated, beautiful, well-spoken prostitute
• Fell in love with Pericles
• Influenced Pericles with his Greek orders

Isagoris

• A jerky, corrupt, unkind, bad guy
• Was dictatorial  in his rule
• His son raped a highly respected women and let him get away with it
• The people raised up and took him out of office

Cleisthenes

• Took power after Isagoris
• Was an aristocrat
• Incorporated people into the government
• Made democracy
• Started panicking people and the Greeks voted to ostracize him
• Ostracize- to be cast out and sent away  

Xerxes and Darius

• Wanted to take over Greece
• Controlled a lot of the Mediterranean
• Powerful Persians
• Xerxes is the son of Darius
• The Greeks abandoned Athens and went to an island to watch the Persians burn down Athens 
• The Greeks came back to Athens and built it back up bigger and better then before

Phedippides

• Runs 26 miles to get help for the Greeks to fight off the Persians   

Pericles

• In charge for 30 years
• Was in charge during the golden age
• Hubris- so arrogant you don't think anything can go wrong. You do anything you want
• Wants to take out Sparta because of his hubris
• The Greeks surrounded Sparta and put a wall around Athens
• The Spartans took down the wall and stomped on Athens stealing everything
• The plague started and killed many people
• People died and rotted in the water supply
• Pericles got the plague and died