Extra Notes

     Today we added more notes to the notes we had already taken about the ancient Greeks and excellence.
     The first note I added was about Agora.  I added that an agora is a voting area in town to meet and discuss ideas or decisions about the town.  I also added that ancient Greece had the world's first democracy.
     The next note I added was about Arete.  I added that, along with it meaning excellence of any kind, it is the act of living up to someone's potential.
     I then added notes about Polis.  The only thing I put for that was ideal because that's what I was told to put about polis.
    The next note I put was about the year 508 BC.  I put down that the Athenians overthrew the old government with a tyrant.  The tyrant's name was Tarchet (I think that's how you spell it).  It was also the very first time in recorded history that common people had a revolution against their leaders.
     I also put a note about Socrates and his death.  Socrates was the teacher of Plato.  He also made a point of how ugly he was in his life.  He was forced to drink a cup of Hemlock poison because he was accused of corrupting the youth of Athens and disrespecting the Gods.  In his trial, he was voted guilty.  In jail, his friends told him that they talked and they're going to turn their back so he can escape and Socrates refused.  He drank the Hemlock poison and died right in front of his friends.
      We weren't able to get notes for everything because we took up around half the class talking about Agora.