3/21/11

     Today we continued with the movie.  Athens formed a form of their own empire called the Dalian League.  This was like a friendly conquer and the people of these areas were like their allies.  Pericles was born into an aristocratic family and knew what people wanted.  He made a real focus on things like art to get the culture and economy going.  He had a huge building called the Parthenon built on top of the Acropolis.  It was a huge monument dedicated to Athena and was the most expensive and awesome building of the time.  Under Pericles many things were done for the first time.  Drama was also invented at this time.  They had huge theatres carved on the side of hills where thousands of people would go to watch plays.  There were two types of drama; comedies and tragedies.  Pericles made one mistake.  He proposed war with Sparta because Sparta was up there with Athens and he wanted to eliminate them.  The proposal was accepted by the people.  They made a mistake going to war with Sparta when they lost.