Obituary Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece Obituary Ancient Greece has always been known as the civilization that created the mold of the Western society that we live in today. It had influenced the world in a way that no other civilization had. However, such a great civilization didn’t last long. The reason for this is its people failure to form unity. The Greeks were notorious for their disability to unite. In Ancient Greece, the Greek would never have considered themselves as Greek. They were loyal to their city state. There were at least three main reasons for the Greeks’ inability to unite, which are the geographical region of the land, the competitiveness of the people, and extreme narcissism. Greece’s geographic regions caused the Greeks to develop small

Probably the competition outside the games, such as to get positions in the government was the fiercest. This competitive nature came from the narcissism of the Greeks. The Athenians were the first settlement to establish the ideology of democracy. In a democracy, all free men are considered equal. Here, individualism and philosophy thrived. Men valued themselves, just as each city state valued itself, although this didn’t apply to women, as well as those considered to be “slaves by nature,” as Aristotle put it. This, however, may have gone too far, resulting in personal narcissism. Whatever the reason might be, the narcissism of the Greeks made them egoistic. The unwillingness of the Greeks to unite will eventually become a fatal flaw that leads to their eminent doom. Of all the history of the Ancient Greece, there were two events that showed really well how disunity among the Greeks highly contributed to its downfall, which were the Peloponnesian War and Successors’ War. Interestingly, both wars occurred after a unity and followed by a unity that was carried out by “outsiders”. This may have actually shown that the Greeks had never learned from their past