A historical fictional play covering the events of the Persian War between Greece and the Persian Empire.
Setting: Ancient Greece
The Persian War is about to begin, as tension between the Persian Empire and Greece is on the rise.
Characters:
Pericles: leader of Athens at the time
Adonis: main servant and “sidekick” to Pericles
Greek Army: the army of Greece and its city-states
Persian King: king of Persia leading the Persian Empire in the war against Greece
Persian Army: the army of the Persian Empire
Scene 1: Enter Pericles, Adonis; in Athens
Pericles: Adonis, we have a major problem.
Adonis: What is it, sir?
Pericles: Our newly formed city-states are being taxed against their will by the Persians! That isn’t fair that they can just tax whoever they want!
Adonis: Yeah! Who do they think they are? We’re Greeks! They can’t tax our city-states! What are you going to do about it?
Pericles: Well, as leader of one of Greece’s most powerful city-states, I believe that we must do something about this! I’m thinking that war is going to be our only choice. What other way do the Persians know how to resolve conflict?
Adonis: Good point, sir. It makes me sick that they are doing this! I can’t imagine why they think this would be okay. Plus, wouldn’t you think that they would expect us to go to war with them?
Pericles; Yes, and that is exactly what we will do.
Scene 2: Enter Persian King
Persian King: (to himself) Taxing these Greek city-states is my best idea yet! We’re making money off of Greece – who probably isn’t even going to do anything about it!
Enter Greek Army
Greek Army: This is war, Persia! You’ve been taxing our city-states! That’s not fair!
Persian King: You established city-states adjacent in a place that is convenient for us to tax. Just stay out of it and let us do what we want.
Greek Army: No! You can’t just do whatever you want! We’re declaring war over this!
Persian King: Fine. Declare war. I don’t care. I am the king of the world’s greatest and most powerful empire to ever exist. We will destroy you if you go to war with us.
The first part of the Persian War begins. Greek city-states, including Athens, go to war with the might Persian Empire.
1) I like the approach in general, but I think you should concentrate it on a specific event such as the uprising at Miletus or the burning of Sardis (if you want to write something about the Ionian colonies).
ReplyDelete2) Would like to see more depth indicative of research. This is a good start, but could easily be expanded upon.