Egpyt and Greece Notes

• feather of Maht heavier than the heart you could pass into the after life and your name is put in the book of the dead and you can pass into eternity
• Osiris king of the dead
• Isis queen of the dead

• Herodotus wrote the Persian war between the Greeks and Persians- considered the "Grandfather of History"
• Thucydides wrote the second half of the 5th century- peloponisian war between Spartans and Athenians
• Xenophon wrote about the time of Socrates
• Aristotle wrote the first encyclopedia which he ogt help from the students at his school
• Plutarch- greek living during the roman era- known for his biographies
• Pausanias- wrote the first travel guide to the sites in greece

• Persian war takes place during the end of the 5th century-beginning of the classical age- largest empire in the world
• xeres goes up the coast and says- Join us or we'll destory you
• Bosphorus is a strait that forms the boundary between Europe and Asia
• go across greek through macedonia
• stopped at thermopoli
• spartans held them off for 3 days so Athens could be evacuated
• harbour called Piraeus
• When persians got to acropolis they burned everything
• athenians came back and rebuilt the acropolis from funding from the League of athens which was put together to help defend themselves from other cities
• side wall- constructed from remains of the sack-memorials to persian war
• Grove of dyonisus in bottome left- trees- then the theater of dyonisus
• Theater and Religon very strong linked with acropolis- war, gods,
• another theater that wasnt there during the 5th century..put in by the romans
• enter acropolis from a stair area and there are some temples-Athena,
• Pathenon- big building- most important pice of Doric architect(oldest)-center of the city-temple to Athena who was the protector God-built from funds of Athenian legue
• Athens win at the battle of Soronius and Persians kicked back