A "BIG" Mistake

            Yesterday in Western Civilization class, since Mr. Schick was elsewhere; we had a substitute teacher and continued to watch more about the achievements and loses the ancient Greek city-state, Athens, went through. The first thing we learned about Athens, yesterday, was that after the Athenians ostracized their king, who had given them the greatest victory of all over the Persians. After this king was ostracized they turned to a new man named Pericles, who divorced his wife one day and married someone named Aspasia, who according to legend was also a prostitute. We also learned that this man named Pericles built a whole new Parthenon, and in the first year alone used 5,000 talons! This was a great deal of money in the ancient world. Although Pericles had built several great things and his people loved him; he made one of the biggest mistakes in Greek history. He challenged the Spartans to war…