Greece day 997

Today in Western Civilization with Schick we continued to discuss about everything in Greece. We started with is Homer truly real, or is he a mythical man. Or was the Iliad and the Odyssey made by a group of people who told of Homer writing them. The IMPORTANT information is that a polis is a fundamental political unit, a monarchy is a system ruled by a single king, Aristocracy is rule by the rich, noble, land owners, oligarchy is wealthy groups who didn't like aristocrat rule and who seized power, and a tyrant is a powerful individual who seized power appealing to the common people for support. In politics there were no women, no middle class, no slaves, and even sometimes no aristocrats. The leaders started with Draco (621 BCE) then Solon's rule (594 BCE) and then Cleithenes. Cleithenes' people overthrew the government to put him in rule in 508 BCE.