1. Aspasia
(woman) Moved freely in public. Not a native Athenian. Was well educated and taught public speaking to many Athenians.

2. Peloponnesian War Sparta vs Athens
Athens grew rich and powerful and Sparta didn’t trust them.

3. Funeral Oration
Pericles gave a speech telling the people of the Great Democracy that they are fighting for.

4. Why was Athens Defeated?
Sparta and their allies surrounded Athens
Safe within the walls of the city.
The navy delivered supplies to their allies, Sparta didn’t have a navy.
2nd year of the war, a deadly disease swept through Athens and killed a third of the people including Pericles.
War lasted 25 years.

5. Spartans made a deal with the Persians
For money to build a navy, they gave the Persians some Greek territory in Asia Minor.
In 405 b.c. the Spartan new navy destroyed the Athenian fleet.
Athens surrendered
Spartans tore down the city walls, broke up the empire.
Sparta tried to rule all of Greece for 30 years.
Macedonia was growing powerful in the North.

6. Myths Traditional stories about gods and heroes
Believed gods and goddesses affected peoples lives and shaped events
Most impressive buildings in Greek cities were religious temples.

7. Greeks Believed gods and goddesses controlled nature.
God Zeus controlled the sky
Goddess Demeter made the crops grow.
God Poseidon caused earth quakes.

8. Mount Olympus
Highest mountain in Greece where the 12 most important gods and goddesses lived.

9. Gods Chief god Zeus Athena Goddess of wisdom and crafts
Apollo goddess of the sun and poetry
Ares god of war
Aphrodite goddess of love
Poseidon god of the sea and earthquakes
Hestia goddess of home
Artemis goddess of the hunt and wild animals
Hades God of the underworld
Hermes Messenger of the God
Hera Goddess of marriage

10. Prophecy
A prediction about the future.

11. Oracle
A sacred shrine where a priest of priestess spoke for a god or goddess.
Most famous was the oracle at the temple of Apollo at Delphi. Crack in the floor where volcanic smoke hissed from the crack in the earth.