Thebes, Greece

Introduction Greece had a large number of ancient city-states as one can easily bring together. Most of these city-states include Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Megara, Argos, Macedonia, Epeiros, Sicily and so many more. In today’s world, democracy is the most frequently encountered and inspired form of government. Study showcases according to history that it was given birth to in an important period of history that attest the use and implementation of most of its counterparts. Even though some or all

through hard training, tough childhoods, and they were often at war. Sparta was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece. In antiquity the city-state was known as Lacedaemon, while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece. Given its military pre-eminence, Sparta was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during

The paper will describe the four-ancient government by comparing and contrasting the forms of Ancient Greek city- states namely aristocracy, monarch, democracy and oligarchy. However, considering the fact that Greece had a number of poleis and such popular poleis include Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Megara and Argos just to name a few. The reading literature has so far said lot about Athens and Sparta, but not much has been mentioned about the other poleis. Much more reference about government structures

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new,” said Socrates, a famous Greek philosopher. Athens was one of many city-states in Ancient Greece. This city-state had a form of government that was for the people to have a say. Athens had great geography that was advantageous for them. Athens also had many achievements culturally such as architecture and philosophy. The city-state that was superior was Athens because of their geography, government

the most influential ones were Athens, Thebes, Corinth, Delphi, and Sparta, with Athens of Attica and Sparta of Laconia being considered the most powerful of them all. Greek city states each had many different forms of governance throughout the years, and formed to meet their specific contexts. Notable ones are monarchies that were often ruled by a king or a tyrant,

Greece During the Golden Age of City- States Greece during its Golden Age (600 BCE- 300 BCE) was the civilization that was able to provide most of today’s literature, art, math,science, and philosophy. However Greece was not always an empire united by one, for all these islands and towns were scattered around creating their own governments. While around the world there were all these big empires, Ancient Greece was first to stand out with it’s isolated islands each having different governments

the Persian Empire. The first Persian war happened when Darius I sent a small force to punish the Greeks. This force was easily defeated by the Athenian General Miltiades. Years later, Darius’ successor, Xerxes, would mount a full-scale invasion of Greece. Xerxes led a much larger force, looking to conquer and subjugate the Greek city-states. This would bring forth an alliance between the Greek city-states under the premise of defending their land and driving off the Persian invaders. The exiting

Ancient Greece was and still is a mountainous land almost completely surrounded by the Mediterranean sea having more than 1400 islands (The British Museum, n.d.). The mountainous geography caused the Greek populations to be isolated in different colonies, even though they spoke the same language and had the same gods in common, the separation and distance between its people, drove them into forming poleis also known as city-states (Gaskell, 2015). Consequently, it not only influence these colonies

studies and examinations of the great ancient Greek architecture, the immaculate fine art and literature and even the personal possessions and crafts of the societies own inhabitants, one can reason that these materials reflect much about ancient Greece and its people. From studying the architecture of this ancient society, one can assume various things about its inhabitants such as beliefs, ways of lifestyle and levels of intelligence. The first, and probably the most prominent, detail that

Sparta: Democracy vs. Dictatorship, Retrieved November 23th 2016, https://umdrive.memphis.edu/pbrand/public/Ancient%20World%20Online/Athens%20%26%20Sparta%20dictatorship%20%26%20democracy.pdf Sarah B. Pomeroy, Stanley M. Burstein, and others, Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). p.89.