Greece

• Ostracized: being banned/banished from your own land
• Pericles: the leader of Athens at the highest of it's power
• Pericles wanted Athens to be the most widely known City-State so people can bask in it's glory
• Parthenon: a huge building built by Pericles' orders, it was a tribute to Athenia( took 20,000 tons of Marble to build)
• Parthenon took 15 years to build
• Friez: Pericles built monuments for the regular citizens
• Aspasia: was technically a prostitute, Pericles treated her as an equal
• World's first theater
• Greeks invented drama: comedy and tragedy
• Oedipus: was taken away from his parents at a very young age, he solved the riddle of the Sphinx, went to a fortune teller and she told him he was going to kill his father and marry his mother, he gouged his own eyes out
• Hubris: Greek word that mean arrogance and pride
• Pericles wanted to battle Sparta