Notes 2/22/10

• Athens in Province of Attica
• Enormous City, a quarter of Greece lives there
• City based around the Acropolis
• Religion and Theater are very closely linked
• Parthenon most important temple on the Acropolis, also the oldest
• Age of Classical Greece often called the Age of Pericles
• Pericles gives the idea to build a navy
• He also opens the arts
• Frieze going around the Parthenon
• The temple was for the virgin Athena