Socrates/Pericles/Sparta

SOCRATES:

Unbelievably ugly

Didn't care about anything but the mind

Babylon was where everything (i.e. gods) started

The Greeks took the gods and made them reason

The birth of science: Thales  

Wrote about how to sail a boat at night by using the stars

Socrates used reason and logic to study people

He cares about the individual

Spent his days in conversation and walking

"The unexamined life is not worth living"

PERICLES:

One year into the war plague struck

Spread like wildfire

Redness and heat

Bodily fluids  

Pericles died in 429 B.C. from the plague

Linchpin

High profile people now scrambled to find a new leader

SPARTA:

Athenians win a navel battle

Navel leaders were put into jail

Didn't pick up the warriors after falling off of the boat during the war

They were to be tried and executed

The generals were condemned to death by drinking poisonous hemlock 

416 B.C.

A small Greek colony in Sicily asked for Athens help

They sent word back to Athens that they needed reinforcements then no news at all

A soldier returned to Athens and told people what had happened

One of greatest defeats in ancient history

Over 15,000 men had either been killed or taken prisoner

Pointless campaign

Athens enemies began to close in

• Persia
• Spartans

Egypt and other convoys couldn't get through to Athens so people started to starve

They turned to Athena  

404 B.C. Athens surrenders to Lysander, the Spartan leader

The walls were to be torn down and their fleet to be destroyed

Only 12 ships remained

Socrates was arrested for disrupting the religion

People cried when he was taking the poison

He was dying because of his principals

Athens was never a great Imperial power

The city became a place of intellectual study