- He was critizied by the Athenians: head was too big, eye weretoo large, etc
- He walked barefoot, clad only in a ditry robe
- did not care about appearance, only the mind
- looking for a revolution
- People took the gods out of the objects and replaced them with reason
- Birth of Science
- first great greek scientist: Thalese: could figure out the height of almost anything
- Thalese wrote the first book about how to sail at night using the stars
- Socrates created a new way of thinking, using reason to decipher people
- spent his days in conversation, talking and debating with anyone who would talk
- He says things like: My eyes are more beautiful because they bulge out so I can see better
- Socrates said that you should base your knowledge on what you think is right and wrong
- The unexamined life is not worth living
- The Plague in Athens
- would kill many people
- the population was so crowded behind the wall, that it spread like wild fire
- somewhere between 1/3 and 2/3 of the population died
- Pericles also died from the Plague in 429 BC
- Athens now faced the potential to go into mob rule
- After Pericles death, Athens never had a leader with an actual plan to better the city or to help them
- Over 50,000 men were either captured or killed in the war with Sparta and Sicily
- Socrates was arrested on charges of undermining the state relogion
- he constantly questioned the city's policys
- Was to be killed with deat hby hemlock (poisonous plant)
- Was never upset or angry or scared of facing death. Was always calm
- Socrates believed man should question the world around him
- He died for his principles
Today in class we watched the rest of the Ancient Greece movie. These are my notes.
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