Pros And Cons Of Ancient Greek Government

In Ancient Greek there were many forms of government that ranged from monarchy to tyranny. In fact there were hundreds of forms over the many Greek states during Ancient Greek. Some that were more popular than others but all that contributed to the world as we know it now.

Monarchy was a form of government where one would take power in succession to there family member that had ruled before them. Inheriting the title and takiing over the power until the day they were no longer able to. Monarchy's still to this day exist in some countries such as England, where we still have Princes and A queen that rules over them.

Aristocracy, were members of the rich and high society of that time. These individuals did not like democracy and having it

so that the masses could vote them out. They liked having all of the power to themselves and being able to make the decisions that would benefit them. They actually looked at democracy as more of a dictatorship than anything.

Tyranny, were those cases that a sole ruler would take power by force instead of being appointed or inheriting the right to rule through the line of succession with family. Those rulers who would stop at nothing to take the power they felt should be there's

Oligarchy, was where the few richest among the citizens would take power.

In the same sense as aristocracy the rich wanted to be the few that ruled instead of democracy and the poor being able to have power over them.

Democracy, a system of government where people of a state or polity are all involved in making decisions. Where there was more of a chance that all sorts of life had the chance to volte and decide what would happen, instead of the few ruling over.

All of the forms of government are in there own ways similar but different. Oligarchy and Aristocracy are similar in that members of the rich are those in power and the ones that make the decisions. The others are all different in there ways where Tyrannies are someone seizing the power and Monarchy is someone that inherits that same power. So as they were all born and began in some similarities they all have there own unique paths.

As Professor Paul Cartledge said in the artice, "Ephialtes and Pericles presided over a radicalization of power that shifted the balance decisively to the poorest sections of society" It just shows that even back then governments were ever changing. "Athenian democracy was direct and in-your-face... most officials and all juryman were selected by a lot." also said by Professor Paul

Cartledge.

So there are many ways that you can compare the different government types and many ways that they will come out similar but a lot of ways that they will come out very different. Without them though to days world would be very very different