it's insane

I have so many things running through my head
so many thoughts- my brain feels like it's fri'ed

Delian vs the Peloponnese
was a war done because no one wanted domination by just one city
it was all the fault of ole' Pericles
who worked to increase involvement in democracy
a stipend you could have
if a seat in the assembly you'd grab
as you marveled at the Parthenon
(though ya can't see much now since it's all gone)
and thought of Athena's war-like stare
warning Persians to beware
-thanks to Phidias' carving
(both she and Zeus at Olympia left people marveling)

Before the war
was the golden age
where sculptors, writers, and  many a sage
put Athens at the apex of the world's intellectual stage;
Socrates questioned- but he also corrupted,
Plato idealized but democracy he distrusted,
Aristotle investigated with a thirst never satiated
and tutored the greatest, most delusional ruler of all.
Euripides wrote of man's many a flaw-
yet to Aeshylus it was the will of the gods who caused men to fall.
Aophocles had Oedipus and Antigone and the like
whereas Aristophanes showed us The Birds' sad plight.
Herodotus wrote his "Histories"
though thanks to exaggeration, accurate it may not be.
Thuycidides came behind
with a more scientific mind
to remember the speeches of Pericles
and the war of the Delians vs. the Peloponnese.
Myron loved human form
and through his discus thrower showed us what should be the norm
and then last was hippocrates
who found natural, not divine origins of disease.
Such were the thinkers, the writers, the sages
who, in a few years in athens, created works that have lasted the ages.

Philip of Macedonia
had a heart made of stone -yuh.
With masterful strategy
he brought union to all of Greece
but fell to his first wife's blow
(we're nearly positive, but will never quite know).

Alex the great was the awesomest ruler who lived
his mom was really violent- just wanted everything for her kid
he lived in delusions that his daddy was Zeus
and when it came to war he never allowed a truce.
Pharaoh of Egypt, King of Babylon, Persia, and Greece
the Gordian knot he cut through
but at Darius' end he cried (boohoo)
as only a king can kill a king
and D's assistants had done the thing.
He may have been crazy
and that you can well-see
when he'd charge to cause a fright
before other armies (like the Persians at the Granicus) could build up might.
A philosopher, too,
was this man everyone knew.
Intellect he craved
to be learned, taught, shared, and saved.
His library and lighthouse were marvels of form
and  Macedionian dress he ditched and chose Persian as the norm.
He did love his alcohol
though it may have been his one downfall
causing first destruction of Persep.
and later maybe his death.

After Greece came Rome
and Romulus with his heart of stone
who in 753
brought on the building of the 7-hill city
Latins met their end
at the hands of the Etruscans
who brought forth a monarchy
that was short lived, as you can see
when after 509
Republic became the government of the time.
And slowly but surely this nation did grow
into an empire all the world would come to know.
They built The Forum and Agora,
 took on the Greek style amphora,
and many other aspects of Greek life they did, too
gods, art, sculptures, and architecture (the Greeks just seemed to know what to do)

and that's all ifeel like writing
cause my teacher looks like she's going to be smiting
me any minute
if I don't stop typing and get with it.