What Are The Similarities Between Ancient Greece And Today

There are many similarities between Ancient Greece and modern cultures. There are obvious relations to Ancient Greece’s Health and politics to today’s society.
Contributions from Ancient Greece are clearly noticeable in our everyday modern healthcare. A “great contribution of Hippocrates to medicine is the professional ethics and standards that are respected and observed even today. According to Miles, Hippocratic medicine is founded on the available evidence based knowledge, as Hippocratic physicians were required to give complete and detailed medical histories, and this reminds us of the current research protocol in existence today (Kleisiaris 3).” This is even a common practice in everyday medicine where at every doctor visit extensive

records are taken and kept for future references. It also seems that Hippocrates common sense approach to health is one that is still widely excepted and practiced still today. “The fact that Hippocrates believed in a holistic health care model, and in his school science met with drug therapy, diets, and physical and mental exercise, as well as divine solicitation (Kleisiaris 3).”
Our politics of today also echo a strong similarity of those of the Ancient Greeks. Even our term democracy is of Greek origin. “In 508 BCE, the Athenian aristocrat Cleisthenes instituted the first Athenian political democracy—from the Greek demokratia, the rule (kratia) of the people (demos)—an innovation in self-government that might not have been possible had the Athenians not just endured more than 50 years of tyranny, beginning in 560 BCE when Pisistratus assumed rule in Athens (Sayre 59).”
I find it fascinating the obvious connections to our modern-day health care and politics to Ancient Greece. Every physician today uses well-kept records for research and treatment purposes. I haven’t been to a primary care doctor yet that doesn’t advocate a healthy diet and exercise for overall health. It looks like the Greeks also struggled with some of the same political issues we still struggle with today. Equality being a big one, a struggle of power between different groups; men, women, rich, poor. Term limits was issue that they had in common with us. While their solution on of 10 short terms a year was extreme. I like that there was a definite action taken to make sure the people were in control of the government. Maybe we can still learn from the Ancient Greeks.