Gems from my classical history course notes because I'm procrastinating:

"Athens burns (uh oh)"

"Mardonius gets sent to do stuff"

"Delphi discovered late 19th c. CE under modern village SO THEY MOVED IT"

"Claims that Alkmionids Medized? Herodotus didn't buy it"

"Aeschylus was there!!!"

"tyrant of Miletus asks a satrap to help attack Naxos but it's a mess"

"Tyranny 1...DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING???"

"Tyranny 3...makes tyrant friends... build shit...gets friends jobs...makes tyrant friends"

"Water source (need that to live...)"

"BUT WAIT!!... Kleisthenes [becomes tyrant] 525/24(isn't he supposed to be exiled and cursed?)"

"[symposia] where the gay shit happens"

"ELITE FIGHTING FORCE...UNHEARD OF"

"got commemorated in statue that was STOLEN TWICE"

"alt right has appropriated...classical sculpture as "proof" of white as ideal :("
"Spartans: don't medize plz Athenians: we can't"
"Plataea was cool but like MARATHON"
"wooden wall = something in Athens?...NOPE! Ships!"
"you know, the Parthenon guy"
"Persia got scared and left"

"HUGE defeat and Xerxes books it"

"gets locked in a building and starved to death (oh dear :()"

"they stoned him AND HIS WHOLE FAMILY :0"

At one point I spaced out and tried to write as many nonlatin characters as i remembered (greek, cyrillic, hebrew, etc) sparking such notes as:

"what noise does ayin make????"

"oof"

and

"uhhhh"

"time to sit down and decorate shit–AND THE SKILL"

"*when you visit Mycenae, buy an orange juice*"

"Weird that it's all over Eastern Mediterranean BUT NOT ATHENS"

"Pausanias: Ancient Greek Rick Steves"

"History majors only know about Rome and Hitler"

"Tyrant 1 seizes control but he's a benefactor, passes power to his son who sucks and passes power to HIS son who's TERRIBLE"

"In this house we stan BARTZI"

"Greece has earthquakes!"

"In theory"

"ARE THEY GREEK YET"

"Where did the stuff go???"

And from the art history course taught by my classical history professor's wife:

"EVERYBODY SAY PENIS!"

"Whenever anyone sacrificed in Greek myth, it was always virgin women, so WATCH IT"

"It's not BOOPIS"

(these are quotes from her)

and my notes from that class:

"Some are fake!!!"

"Keeps snakes away from you"

"Pottery wheel!!!!!!"

"BIGGEST THREATS"

"men outside working and women inside not getting a tan"

"is this forced labor? no because the workers don't look miserable?"

"Why is the monkey there???" (triple underlined)

(later) "BUT WHY IS THE MONKEY THERE???"

"children –> cannibalism"

"NEW IDEA! Gods need houses"

"Warrior vase (have shoes)"

"New Bronze Age Stuff!"

"Egyptians are clothed!!!"

"Monarch->aristocrat control->tyrant->monarch, etc. repeat until democracy"

"Pyxis: little box for women to hold shit"

"Stones borrowed for other things"

"2 cellae???"

"Peleus was there"

my prof is also always going on about how nice statues' asses are

I have more notes so it's time to add to this thread!

"*NEW!!! White Ground*"

"Purple cloak!"

"Nice colors!"

"*NO WOMEN AGAIN*"

"*More emotion?=> lOTS of emotion for Greeks"

"What are these for???"

"Make them feel uncomfy"

"Athenians think highly of themselves"