Jillian Kurzmann's Blog 1/25/18

Jillian Kurzmann
1/25/18
Honors Western Civilization

Today in class, we read pages in the textbook about government and society in Greece. We also took notes of the government of Greece off of the PowerPoint.

  • Polis- fundamental political unit, made upon a city and the surrounding countryside.
  • Politics (affairs of the cities), policy, political, etc.
  • Monarchy- ruled by a single person (a king, in Greece).
  • Aristocracy- rule by a small group noble, very rich, landowning families.
  • Oligarchy- wealthy groups, dissatisfied with aristocratic rule, who seized power (often with military help).
  • Tyrants- powerful individual, who seized control by appealing to the common people for support.
  • During the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, aristocrats ran the show in most of Greece.
  • Really?!? Back then, rich people wielded much more influence in the society, and held much more government power, then the middle class or the poor?
  • Gee, what would that be like?
  • Aristocrats: numbers of the ruling class.
  • They attended symposiums, meetings where the elite men would enjoy wine and poetry, performances by dancers and acrobats, and the company of hetaeras (courtesans), while discussing politics.  

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