Compare And Contrast Sparta And Athens
Athens and Sparta were the two most legendary city-states that had a great impact in Greece history, especially because they were set apart by opposite governamental systems that affects how we still perceived them today, in addition to showing us the origins of military and democratic organizations that resembles that of ours through the World . As our reading material by Brand describes, Athenians were the ones that brought democracy to reality, while Spartans were set minded in dictatorship, which largely affect the way the population of these two poleis participated in community decisions.
In Sparta only recognized males were considered citizens and had the right to participate in public life through what they called a monthly Assembly, …show more content…
They were chosen by their royal status that belonged clams from Agiads and Eurypontids.
The Ephors: three to five of them ruled alongside the kings, sometimes with much more power, dealing from military and judicial affairs to foreign relations. Elected by the Assembly and serving for a year.
The Gerousia: represented by 30 men over the age of 60, this group was formed by an influential elite of aristocrats, including the two Kings, which then alongside the Ephors had the most say in all the proceedings and decisions that were brought in the Assembly.
Meanwhile, Athens was ruled by the wealthy aristocrats farmers, however throughout a series of conflicts between the less privileged classes such as craftsman and traders, and political attacks by the Tyrant Pisistratus, led these then in power aristocrats to choose political representatives starting with Solon and later Cleisthenes, each at its on time, to makes adjustments in social inequalities that would give “birth” to democracy starting around 500 BCE, this is when Cleisthenes rearrange Athenian society into ten tribes to scatter and mix the old factions that were in conflict, respectively forming the Boule, wherein 50 yearly members of each tribe formed a consul of 500 free Athenian citizen men responsible in creating and passing laws that would affect the Attica region population (Brand,
In Sparta only recognized males were considered citizens and had the right to participate in public life through what they called a monthly Assembly, …show more content…
They were chosen by their royal status that belonged clams from Agiads and Eurypontids.
The Ephors: three to five of them ruled alongside the kings, sometimes with much more power, dealing from military and judicial affairs to foreign relations. Elected by the Assembly and serving for a year.
The Gerousia: represented by 30 men over the age of 60, this group was formed by an influential elite of aristocrats, including the two Kings, which then alongside the Ephors had the most say in all the proceedings and decisions that were brought in the Assembly.
Meanwhile, Athens was ruled by the wealthy aristocrats farmers, however throughout a series of conflicts between the less privileged classes such as craftsman and traders, and political attacks by the Tyrant Pisistratus, led these then in power aristocrats to choose political representatives starting with Solon and later Cleisthenes, each at its on time, to makes adjustments in social inequalities that would give “birth” to democracy starting around 500 BCE, this is when Cleisthenes rearrange Athenian society into ten tribes to scatter and mix the old factions that were in conflict, respectively forming the Boule, wherein 50 yearly members of each tribe formed a consul of 500 free Athenian citizen men responsible in creating and passing laws that would affect the Attica region population (Brand,