Friday, May 28, 2010

Reading 5/28

Pausanias - Description of Greece

  • Pausanias is describing the area in in Greece and what you would see there.

Solon: Select Fragments

  • Solon is saying what he thinks about the way people should act. He talks about demos, koros, and hybris often.

Solon by Plutarch

  • Plutarch is writing about Solon's family, the way he was, and his reputation. He uses many quotations in his writing.

Herodotus: The Persian Reject Democracy/Darius' State

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Monday, May 24, 2010

Notes of Leonardo da Vinci

  1. He was known as an inventor, he formed his own style, his own paints, he invented other things.
  2. He started out as an apprentice
  3. He wrote his diaries in a code. The words were backward like a mirror image