Briefly describe the characteristics of ancient Greek civilization

Democratic constitution: noticeable slavery democracy. Thoreau's legislation in Athens. The idea of a democracy is that the popular interest and public affairs should be discussed and resolved by the people; that the individual elements of the group should deliberate, express their opinions, and hold votes; based on the rationale that the interests and public affairs of the state are the interests and affairs of the individual elements themselves.

The difference with modern democracies is: the definition of individual elements. The ancient Greeks were simply defending a collectivist existence in the spirit of a primitive conception of the state, rather than building on a reflection on the system itself. For example, for the great figures of the democratic species of government, Thoreau, Chrystoni, Mithaiades, Pericles, etc. first admired, but later became cynical and banished them. Reflecting the fact that this is a naive democracy. (Not that modern democracies have gotten rid of this childishness).

Slavery: this made the basis of Greek democracy, which was a slave-owner's democracy. It also proves that Greek democracy was primitive and naive, and did not fully understand the nature of "freedom", but instinctively practiced the demands of "freedom".

The oracle: This was a close link between the Greek city-states. The temples of Delphi and Athena had a long influence on Greece. This was because democracy itself was na?ve and represented only the interests of the slave owners, so the oracles were the only way to call the people to arms. Similarly among the various city-states only oracles could be used to unify the pace. This is artificially created national will.

Free thought, the spirit of inquiry and the idea of beauty: two foundations, geographic and originating; one premise, slavery. This was a humanistic civilization, with an extraordinarily high regard for humanity. Proven in sculpture, mythology, history, philosophy.

Extensive colonization: the external colonization of the Greek city-states was universal, even of the colonies themselves. "Colonization" in this context is different from later colonization, in which the state's rights over the colony were limited, limited to a certain amount of homage in rituals and ceremonies (see the paragraph on Corcyra and Corinth at the beginning of the History of the Peloponnesian War). The origins of the Greek colonies were the result of the expansion of the city to a certain limit and the migration of the people in the lower classes in search of new spaces, not excluding strategic considerations.

Unification and division go hand in hand: this is a recurring phenomenon in history, as in Italy during the Renaissance and in Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In Greece, the rise of national consciousness began with Homer, and the Greek-Polish War drove its formation. But the divided geography and the diversity of races created divisions between the city-states. For example, Athens belonged to the Ionians and Sparta to the Dorians, and looked down on each other. More importantly, the history of the city-states has led people to insist on their independence rather than sacrifice the freedom of their city-states.

Democracy versus autocracy: Athens and Sparta, democracy versus autocracy. Not only that, but within Athens and Sparta themselves, there were both democratic and authoritarian factions, and the factional struggle continued throughout Greek history. This is one of the reasons for the endless civil wars in Greece. Tyrant, a person who does not rule legally but who does not think he does. The final victory of Sparta meant the end of Greek democracy, a testament to the elimination of infantile democracy from history.