Greece Notes

• Modern day Turkey was once called Anatolia
• Athens lies right on the bay
• Sparta: There is a lot of information about it in Google earth, just click on it
• The oldest epic written in the English language was the Iliad
• Achilles was the Greek hero of Troy
• The Trojan war broke out because: There was a wedding planned and everyone in all of Greece was invited except one. She sends out a golden apple to the wedding that says "to the fairest." all of the goddesses want it, and one man has to decide which one is the fairest. Pairs is the judge. She bribes him by saying that she will give him any woman as his bride if he choses her. The woman he choses, Helen, is the most beautiful woman in the world, and she is married, so he captures her, and her husband and others come after Paris. Achilles is killed, and it is left to Odesius to come up with a plot. They hide in a horse and left it as a gift to the Gods, and the Trojans took it into their city. The Trojans came out and sprung a surprise attack. They opened the gates for the rest of the Greek army and then set the entire city on fire.

I found a video about Athenian and Spartan women, and how they were treated.