Philip II and his son Alexander III the Great conquered a huge empire and spread Hellenic culture throughout the Mediterranean and Asia. The concept of male superiority is a familiar and common one for the Ancient Greeks but on the other hand there are notable cases of functional and productive societies that honoured females as natural rulers.
The Greek philosopher Aristotle divided ancient Greek government into monarchies oligarchies tyrannies and democracies and most historians still use these same categories.
Rulers of ancient greece. Pericles 494 BC-429 BC 3. However it had existed before in areas that were part of Greece and continued to exist throughout the classical period Macedonia but also Sparta. Ancient Greece the birthplace of democracy was the source of some of the greatest literature architecture science and philosophy in Western civilization and.
Rulers of Ancient Greece. Alexander the Great 356 BC323 BC 2. Find all the books read about the author and more.
Cleisthenes 570 BC-508 BC. In the preceding centuries the dominant geopolitical unit was the polis or city-state. Some of the noteworthy rulers of ancient Greece are as follows.
The area had been divided into several small nations which were rarely at peace with each other but was united under one king by the mid C4th BC. Draco 621 BC was an Athenian politician and law codifier. 355281 BC Cassander king of Macedon 358297 BC.
Ancient Greece was a society where we can observe both these lines of thought. 484 c425 BC in his book The Histories. When Xerxes went to war against Greece 480-479 BCE Artemisia ruler of Halicarnassus brought five ships and helped Xerxes defeat the Greeks in the naval battle of Salamis.
Daniel Ogden Author 50 out of 5 stars 1 rating. The Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece by Daniel Ogden Author Visit Amazons Daniel Ogden Page. An oligarchy is when a council of rich people inherits power from their parents.
Learn about Author Central. Leonidas King of Sparta 540 BC-480 BC 4. Kingship Basilea was defined or rather caricatured by reference to the Persian King of Kings.
The following abridged list of rulers for the ancient Greek world is primarily for the rulers of the Hellenistic age 32331 BC after the time of Alexander the Great. Solon 630 BC-560 BC 5. A monarchy is when a king or queen or in Sparta two kings rules the city-state.
Queen Artemisia I of Karia became the Greek queen of the Persian satrapy of Karia in around 484 BC immediately following the death of her husband the former ruler of Karia. While Athens practiced democracy Sparta was ruled by two Greek mythology kings and a group of elders. She is written about extensively by the Greek historian Herodotos of Halikarnassos lived c.
Are you an author. Some of these city-states were being managed by rich influential groups of people. See search results for this author.
Top 12 Greatest Leaders in Ancient Greece. Greek city-states were governed by a variety of entities including kings oligarchies tyrants and as in the case of Athens a democracy. She was named for the goddess Artemisia but Herodotus born.
Philip II king of Macedon and Greece 359336 BC Alexander the Great king of Macedon and much of Asia 356323 BC Lysimachus general of Alexander the Great ruler of Thrace west Asia Minor and Macedonia c.
