Gabriella Spilker                                                                                                        3/18/15

                                                                  West Civ

     Today in West Civ we continued taking notes on Greece. Furthermore, we also planned another party. This time the party is for Luke's birthday, hopefully everyone remembers and bring in their stuff! Down below I have listed some facts I learned today.

• The aristocrats basically ran Greece in the seventh and sixth century BCE
• a Symposium is a big party for men only there are no women they all gather and have wine and food while discussing politics
• the only women allowed was the entertainment 
• no lower class was allowed 
• only certain men sometimes not even some aristocrats 
• tyrant- was someone who ruled outside the polis 
• a tyrant now is a leader who is abusive or oppressive
• Hippias was a tyrant who ruled from 527-510 BCE 
• his brother was murdered and when that happened he got very upset and then his rule went downhill 
•  He was eventually expelled from Athens......that's the worst punishment