Notes from class GREEK

• the battle of Thermopalae and Salamis were the two very important battles in Greek vs Persian wars, if the battles turned out differently history would be completely different
• 1/4 of all Greeks lived in Athens.
• Acropolis of Greek
• at the base of the Acropolis is the sacred grove of Dionysus
• every year at the grove play writers would write three plays and they would all be performed and the winner would be announced
• the theater was called the theater of Dionysus
• After Thermopalae when the Persians burned down the acropolis the Greeks built Parthenon
• although the Greeks defeated Persia, they only made the Persian fleets head back to Persia and did not invade Persia
• Democracy
• if you were male in Greece you had to fight in war