Ancient Greece

They developed a radical democracy where all citizens met in assembly fortnightly to direct the council on actions to be taken. This is practicable only in a small state where citizens can cover the distance to vote in person. With our large states today this is impracticable, so we have representative democracy where elected representatives meet in a parliament to carry out the wishes of the people.

Together with the rest of the Greek world, it passed on architecture, art, the arts, language which have influenced modern society.

They mostly wore berry juice, for their lips and eyes, charcoal for eyeliner, and white lead to create a pale complexion, which we now know killed many women because while lead is toxic.

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Each city-state had its own laws and customs. Civil matters were enforced by heads of families, both within the families and between families.

Political and property laws were the responsibility of a magistrate and a council. Punishments ranged from banishment and restriction of rights to execution.

In Athens enforcement of their decisions was undertaken by a group known as The Ten, who arranged the whippings and executions ordered. Other cities had similar arrangements.

Alliances in Greece changed. For example several times Sparta and Athens fought on the same side, at others on opposing sides. Similarly at times Sparta and Thebes fought together, at other times were opponents. Generally Sparta was allied to other Doric city-states, though again this was not a hard and fast rule.

And although Persia was usually an opponent of the Greek city-states, it was Persian financial support which enabled Sparta and its allies to get a competent fleet in the Peloponnesian War and defeat Athens.

The difference between modern day theatre and ancient Greek theater is that in ancient Greece only boys could act in the shows. The stages were tilted instead of the chairs for the audience and they used big two sided masks made of rock.

Medusa was a part of ancient Greece, though she was not a god or goddess she was a well known monster. Yeah and she had snakes coming out of her her hair hmmmmmmm weird I know!

Revenge, Death, And Politics.

It is used for hunting by the Aborigines. It has also been used as a weapon.

They were in competition and weakened each other through war. Then they successively fell to the expanding Roman Empire.

Macedonia supported Carthage and became the target of a vengeful Rome. Syria-Mesopotamia lost most of its territory to the Parthians and its rump was taken over by Rome. Pergamon's king gave up to the inevitable and willed the kingdom to Rome, and after Marc Antony and Cleopatra's demise, Rome converted Egypt into a province.

Back then such people were called 'philosophers' or someone that loved wisdom. Later the things they studied was called 'Natural Philosophy'. At about the time of Dalton, Newton and Benjamin Franklin such people began to be called 'Scientists'. Up to that time people that loved chemistry were called Alchemists and after that time were called Chemists.

Aristotle was the most famous of the Greek scholars and his written works were used into the Middle Ages. The educated people at that time were priests and their philosophy or educational methods was called 'Scholasticism'. Their methods allowed no observation of the world by the individual and individuals trained in Scholasticism were trained almost exclusively in what Aristotle wrote, as far science was concerned.

Aristarcus was a Greek and he studied and observed and thought about the stars and Earth and the Sun. His idea was that the planets rotated about the Sun or 'Helios'. His system was called Heliocentric; or rotating about the Sun, as opposed to 'Geocentric' or rotating around the Earth, which was what Aristotle and Scholastics, and the Catholic Church, and the religions of Greece believed. Aristarchus' books were nearly all destroyed by the religions of his day. Aristotle's were preserved.

Aristotle received large amounts of money from Alexander the Great. One shipment was 40,000 talents of gold (about 40 pounds per talent, or 1.6 million pounds of gold) Aristotle had written a book and Alexander, out conquering the world, objected and said, 'Why do you tell people our Most Excellent Knowledge?' I think Aristotle wrote one thing for the world and Greek Religions, and another for Alexander. I understand he was able to demonstrate to Alexander an Eclipse of the Moon and to show Alexander, as a boy, that the Earth was round, 'See it's shadow on the Moon?, and that the Earth and Moon revolved around the Sun.

It made the Greek states weaken because many people died in fighting and many farms were destroyed. Thousands of people were left without jobs. The war also made it impossible for the Greeks to reunite and work together again.

Originally nomads from the east, they settled down in Greece as a series of independent city-states. Being prolific breeder (no television) the city populations became too large for the limited and poor territory each had, so they sent off shiploads of people to take fresh land and establish cities. This spread the Greek cities all around the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

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Athens converted the Delian League which it had led against the Persians in the latter phase of the war into and empire of its own.

Athens ripped off this empire and spent the proceeds on glorifying itself and putting half its citizens on the public payroll.

It also used the fleet it maintained to control its empire to intrude into other Greek cities and provoked the Peloponnesian War, which it lost and was stripprd of its empire.

The Greeks left behind many things, including

* the Greek alphabet * Our tradition of the Olympic Games * Medicine (Hippocrates, the "father of medicine" founded the first medical school and encouraged students to interpret the symptoms carefully) * Democracy * Law (trial by jury) * Tragedy & Comedy plays * Architecture, and their development of columns and construction with marble

Becuase they were weak The Greeks never had an empire. All they were globally were a collection of independent city-states. Alexander the Great tried to establish an empire but at his death it all fell apart. So there is no comparison.

Their role was to:

- observe and comment on the action of the two or three actors

- forward the action of the plays

- garner sympathy for the heroes in the plays

- draw the audience in, even if the audience is already aware of the outcomes of the stories.

First of all, we (greeks) call it Konstandinoupoli!

no it doesn't form part of Greece.