Ancient Greek movie 4

• Themistocles
• Example of effective democracy in Athens
• Doesn’t come from the inner circle that had traditionally ruled
• Not a traditional aristocratic upbringing
• He knows how to make a city great
• Show himself to be one of histories greatest leaders
• Savior of his city
• Recognize the Persians are still a danger
• They would not be beat again
• Trireme- state of the art ship technology that was lightweight and was used to ram the enemy's ship.
• The front of the boat that sticks out
• They would get very good speed with the rows on the side of ship and ram into the other boats
• Soldiers would be rowing the boat
• They were very expensive
• 483 B.C
• Athenians found a lot of silver
• Worth a lot
• Athenians anted to divide the riches between themselves
• Themistocles  wanted to use the money for new ships
• Convinces them that it is to protect against local enemy but in reality it was against the possible Persian attack

• Persian king died and Xeroxes took his place
• He wants to burn Athens to the ground
• He will not rest until it happens

• Persian empire set of for Athens  480 B.C
• Xeroxes was confident for defeating them
• Phase 2 of the Persian wars
• First time they were surprisingly beat at Marathon

• Oracles could see into the future
• Communicate with the gods
• Reading stars, patterns of birds, other weird things

• Oracle at Delphi - best position best communication of gods
• Archeologist have discovered questions written in the stone
• Athenians needed to know what they could do to save themselves
• Told them that to Athenians were doomed and they should leave
• To them it seemed like even the gods had deserted them
• Themistocles read the oracle and interpreted it differently
• He wants to fight the Persians at sea
• Salamis
• He evacuated all of Athens and ordered them into exile

• Plan is to still beat the Persians at sea
• The strait of salamis
• A guy bailed on the Greeks and sold them out to the Persians and told them what was going on

• In the end the Greeks win
• Athenians are now on the road to becoming a superpower
• Delian League
• Athens empire
• No interested in conquering other places
•  interested in looked out each other and themselves

• Athenians were turning on Themistocles because he was reminding them of all the taxes the owed
• Never recovered from his humiliation
• Died in exile