Democracy, when we find "democracy" from the dictionary, it shows us "late 16th century: from French démocratie, via late Latin from Greek dēmokratia". Around B.C 508, Cleisthenes returned to Athens. He projected an idea which had never had no one did that in history. Everyone had a chance to vote what they want. That's how democracy was. He's the first one who proposed democracy.
In nowadays, Greece is still a county of Europe. Ancient Greece civilization star from about 2,900 years ago. In the history, it's including Greek Peninsula, Aegean, Ionian Sea, and the islands. Due to the geography and environments at Greece, there're a lot of different city-state, as the one the most people know: Sparta.
In 1997, Disney had made a movie name "Hercules". It's a cartoon story based on the mythology of Ancient Greece. It's telling that the story that about Hercules, which is one of Zeus's son.
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They are:
Aphrodite: she's the god who's in charge of love, beauty, and desire;
Apollo: he's in charge of the music;
Ares: he's Zeus' son. He's the god of war. As Wonder Woman (movie of Warner Bros. Pictures 2017) "Zeus' son grew envious of mankind and sought to corrupt his father's creation."
Artemis: she's the god who manages chastity, virginity, the hunt, and the moon and natural environment.
Athena: she's the goddess of literature, art, intelligent activity, and reason.
Hades: the same as his name. The god of underworld. He's the brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
Hephaestus: he's the god of fire and volcanoes; he's a blacksmith, sculptors, and
Ancient Greece was famous for its art and ideas. Greek people were very creative in great epics, history, dramas, philosophy, science, mathematics, and medicines. The ancient Greece was covered with mountains, rocky hills, and narrow valleys. Greek later became educated about trading with the Mediterranean. Modern Democracy is more concerned about peace, division of power and providing equal rights of every citizen of a country however, in the ancient Greece was involved with war among the state, misuse of political power, discriminate slaves and poor farmers.
He is also the son of Cronus and Rhea, and is the second most powerful god. He is one of the three supreme gods of the Earth. (Gall.)
The Greeks where the first democracy in the world. There government was made up of six thousand members all of witch where male citizens. They voted on problems that needed to be solved and if a law was to pass a majority vote was needed. Now in the United States also has a democracy. Instead of having six thousand people voting and making the decisions all the people vote on a representative that makes the decisions in the country.
The Olympian gods who defeated the unruly and chaotic Titans in the Titanomachy. When he grew up Zeus would revolt against Cronus and the other Titans, defeat them, and banish them to Tartarus in the underworld.
King of the underworld and the dead, and god of the earth 's hidden wealth, both agricultural produce and precious metals. His consort is Persephone. His attributes are the drinking horn or cornucopia, key, sceptre, and the three-headed dog Cerberus. The screech owl was sacred to him. He was one of three sons of Cronus and Rhea, and thus sovereign over one of the three realms of the universe, the underworld. As a chthonic god, however, his place among the Olympians is ambiguous. In the mystery religions and Athenian literature, Pluto (Plouton, "the Rich") was his preferred name, with Hades more common for the underworld as a place. The Romans translated Plouton as Dis Pater ("the Rich Father") or Pluto.
Zeus fell in love with a Greek woman named Alcmene, and impregnated her. When the wife of Zeus, Hera, found out she tried to prevent the birth of the child. Hera could not stop the birth, and the child was named Hercules, which means “glorious gift to Hera” in Greek. Hercules was a demi-god because of one human parent and one god parent. Hera tried to kill the baby by placing snakes in his crib, butt the child strangled the snakes before they could kill him. Hera wanted to get revenge on Zeus by making Hercules life miserable.
Both Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic contributed greatly to the development of the modern world, bringing into it the notions of democracy and republic. The evolution of these concepts took them to a level much higher than one present in Ancient Greece and Rome respectively. However, modern society continues to draw on somewhat idealized accounts of the ancient world for inspiration in improving today’s governing procedures.
Zeus was the supreme god and ruler of Olympus. He was known by many names: Lord of the Sky, the Rain-god, the Cloud-gatherer, and Zeus the Thunderer. Zeus was the sixth child born to Cronus and Rhea behind Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Dementer, and Hera. The high soaring eagle was sacred to him, and to the Romans he was known as Jupiter. Zeus was a strong, mighty, awesome, glorious, and wise god. Although, he was very foolish and naïve with hiding his love affairs from Hera.
During the Golden Age in Greece, many things changed. Things that changed were the diversity of political views and the social doings of the Athenians and the organization of the Athenians economy. With the Golden Age, many groups worked together that wouldn’t normally interact. The biggest example of that is the relationship between Athenians and their democracy.
Democracy, the form of government in which there is a rule by the people, is said to have originated and thrived in the classical period of Athens, from 500-350 B.C.. Democracy inherently gave all that were considered citizens power to participate in politics. That being said, it is highly debated as to how much power the people, also known as the demos, exercised in this democracy. Many practices and informal institutions can be said to have limited the power of the demos. The democracy in Athens could be said to have been a democracy in theory yet not in practice, as can be proven through a variety of primary sources recounting Athenian political institutions and practices. Such primary sources that can demonstrate this include Herodotus’ History, Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War, and Demosthenes’ Oration Against Eubulides.
Zeus, he was the king of the gods and the supreme ruler of people. He originally was a god of the sky. In time, the Greeks regarded him as the only god who concerned him-self with the whole universe. They also associated Zeus with justice and believed that he punished the wicked and rewarded the good. He belonged to the race of Titans, and was the son of Cronus and Rhea. After overthrowing Cronus, Zeus took his father's place and ruled from Mount Olympus. He headed a family of twelve major gods, called the Olympians.
Ancient Greece is often considered to be at the epicentre of western development. Classical Greece emerged through a time of tremendous change in the nature civilization, and is often credited with bring forth an era of development that is indicative of modern western society. Democracy is indubitably the foremost example of this cultural shift. Democracy is widely considered to be a necessary characteristic in successful modern civilizations. However this generalization assigns the undue claim that sophisticated cultures arise only from democratic states, and while that is often the case this generalization stems from an extremely westernized perspective of global development. The purpose of this paper is not to say that democracy is the pinnacle
Ancient Greece and Rome are the two most influential cultures that contributed to the modern day world in the areas of government, architecture and entertainment. The Greeks created the idea of democracy, which is used in 123 of the 192 countries in the world today. Unlike Greece, Rome began as a monarchy then adapted into a republic. Greek society is not only the birthplace of democracy, but also of architecture. Being the patrons of columns, domes and temples, many ancient societies based their own architectural styles off of them. Nevertheless the Romans were one of them, they adapted the use of columns and were the first civilization to use arches in their designs. Entertainment played large rolls in ancient Greece and Rome. The Greeks
There are two over-riding opinions on how the democracy of ancient Greece ended. Historically, it is said that the Macedonian victory over the Greeks is the culprit. When Alexander the Great died, the city rose up against the Macedonians. Alas, their efforts were quelled by the Macedonians and the city was placed under an oligarchical government in 322 BCE, ending the reign of democracy in Athens (Gascoigne, 2001). However, Plato and many others would disagree that this was the true fall of democracy.
one essential conviction, expressed in the word democracy itself: that power should be in the hands of the people. Although democracy today has been slightly inefficient in this idea, with the wealthy, elite class challenging this right, “it nevertheless claims for itself a fundamental validity that no other kind of society shares….” To completely understand the structure of democracy, one must return to the roots of the practice itself, and examine the origins in ancient Greece, the expansion in the Roman Empire, and how these practices combined make what we recognize as today’s democratic government.