Athenian democracy

the people became fed up and overthrew the tyranny. This led most city-state’s governments to morph into an oligarchy or democracy (Wilson,…

gives the right of an open expression of ideas and opinions without being pursued by the government after that. It takes its origins form the Athens’ democratic ideology of the late 6th or early 5th century BC. The Athenian democracy was the first known democracy of the world. The democracy gives rights to take part in the countries` legal life and to express ones ideas openly. The idea of free speech is not only the sharp topic in the modern world, and the thing that people seek, but the…

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America established a Government. It several ways that Government is modeled after the government of Ancient Athens. This comparison is not one-hundred percent because Athens was a true Democracy and America is a Constitutional Republic. We will look at these two governments and how they are alike and different. Ancient Greece at one time was ruled by a select few. So new leaders decided the government would by one-hundred percent run by the citizens.…

This essay will outline and discuss the major similarities and differences in the governmental format and participation between the Athenian and Spartan societies in ancient Greece. While these two city states both used a similarly designed system of government, their implementation of these systems, and the relative effectiveness of their various parts were vastly different. Athens and Sparta shared a common design in who could participate in public life and make decisions affecting the…

dictatorship and Athens having a pure, direct democracy. Nevertheless, both of these forms of government ultimately failed, as Sophocles demonstrates in his play, Antigone, and Thucydides demonstrates in his book, History of the Peloponnesian War. Together, these two works teach modern society that neither a pure democracy nor a pure dictatorship can be a successful political system due to inherent fatal flaws in each system. In the Athenian democracy, where every male citizen over 18 years of…

In a monarchy government, the power to make decisions is in the hands of one person, usually called a king or a queen. The word monarchy comes from the Greek root words monos (which means “one”) and arkhein (which means “rule”). From about 2000 B.C.E. to 800 B.C.E., most Greek city-states were ruled by monarchs—usually kings (the Greeks did not allow women to have power). At first, the Greek kings were chosen by the people of the city-state. When a king died, another leader was selected to take…

Democracy is a government for the people and by the people; Laws and regulations are made in a way in which meets the needs and wants of the citizens in an appeasing manner. Such a utopian political systems sounds grand on paper; up-keeping its value is the same as trying to keep a white pair of suede shoes clean while walking in mud. Democracy is a fragile and intricate system that was great in the times of the ancients, but not good for the U.S. of A. This is the premise behind my argument of…

general, thanks to how the government system was created and maintained, the plethora of ideologies and philosophies, and the economic system. Greece was the birth of arguably one of the most important government systems ever created now known as a Democracy which is still used today. Philosophies and ideologies impacted the regions nearby and have also affected modern day drastically in many ways. The economic system was mostly dependent on the import of goods which was beneficial to everyone…

of public office holders, how the two city-states were similar in their governmental structures, and how they differed. People in Athens participated in public life through a process of decision making for the community using a system of direct democracy, although this only included free males who were citizens of the city. These males were known as Thetes and they had the right to join in debates and participate in law making in a People’s Assembly known…

Greece and Mesopotamia are two very different civilizations. One difference was the government. Greece was the first democracy in history while Mesopotamia had a theocracy. Another difference was the fact that citizens had a say in government in Greece. Now while that ties into Democracy at the time no one else had thought of anything like it. However, even though they were different these two ancient powerhouses did have some similarity. One similarity was th belief in more then one god. At one…