Review Notes 5/27/10

• Herodotus- Greco-Persian Wars
• Thucydides- Peloponesian Wars
• Xenophon- The time of Socrates
• Aristotle- Encyclopedia
• Plutarch- Biographies
• Pausanias- Travel guides
• Persian Wars take place at the beginning of the 5th century
• Xerxes starts going up the Western Coast and either killed or recruited the Greek inhabitants
• Makes his way into Northern Greece
• Bosphorus- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosphorus
• The part of Greece that contains Thessaloniki is Thrace
• Come down from Thrace-Macedonia-
• Get stopped at Thermopylae http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae
• Evacuated Athens in that time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens
• Greeks beat the Persians
• Rebuilt the Acropolis with funding from the League of Athens
• The wall was constructed of remains of things that had been demolished
• There is the grove and the theatre of Dionysus
• Roman theatre put in after the sack of Corinth
• Temples to Athena Nike
• Parthenon is a Doric temple
• It was the center of the city
• Temple of the Virgin Athena