Today in West Civ class we talked about whats gonna be on our test. We talked about Aspasia who was very smart but she slept with all the men. Periclies divorced his wife for her but they never got married. She kinda had rights because she wrote some of Periclies speaches. She helped him out alot The parthenon was basically periclies baby. Then we talked about Isagoris, he is the last of the dictators to run Greece before democracry kicked him out. His son raped a women and got away with it. Then we talked about Cleisthenes who was a hero/warrior. Then we talked about ostracize which means to be cast out or sent away from Athens. They actually ostracized cleisthenes. Then we talked about Xerxes and Darius. They would've been happry if they took over greece because it was annoying them. Darius said lets sail acroos to the greek mainland called marathon they invaded it and thought they could take the Mediterrain. Then we talked abut Pheidippides who was sent to get help and he ran 26 miles to get help. Persians are held off by the Greeks.  Xerxes is the son of Darius and he was king and he wanted to come at Greece with a million men instead of 100,000. The greeks bailed out of athens to an island. The persians just burned everything in site. Then we talked about Periclies, in charge for 30  years, He formed the Delian League, there purpose is to defend greece at all cost. Hubris- your so full of yourself that you think you can't go wrong. Periclies decided to attack sparta. The Greeks surrounded Sparta and put a wall around Athens. Sparta took down the wall and surrounded athens. Then the plague kicked in and started to kill a lot of people. Then the orcale of delphie. This was people who can give good advice.