Movie

All we did was watch more of the movie. Here are some notes on it:

• Pisistratus reduced taxes and gave loans to people
• Olives are valuable and helpful, everyone seemed to want Athenian oil
• Romans were on the western side
• Eastern Mediterranean was a great trade area
• Vase= 1st artistic legacy, people soon really got into their pottery and decorated immensely
• Pottery was made in the same place that prostitutes worked, the makers were the lowest of the low
• 527 BC: Pisistratus died and was buried in the Athenian graveyard, his son Hippias took over
• 514 BC: Hippias' brother was murdered so he killed the killers and tortured one of their wives
• Hippias soon became evil so Cleisthenes took over and was one of the most powerful men in
  Athens
• Olympics-776 BC, way before Cleisthenes
• Arete: Olympics
• Running, wrestling, boxing and Chariot riding were popular in Olympics
• Ordinary people came to compete in Olympics
• Isagoris tried to take over from Cleisthenes so he went to the Spartans; he was friends with a ruler because they shared a wife.  So the Spartans gave him their best armies to take control
• He became a strict tyrant and ostracized Cleisthenes
• People started to realize their rights were being taken away and so they revolted
• FIRST TIME PEOPLE REBELLED AGAINST THEIR LEADER
• On the third day, Isagoris gave up and was removed from his leadership position (508 BC.)
• Brought Cleisthenes back and that is when they started to form democracy