Ancient Greece vs. Today
Ancient Greece and today have many similarities and
differences but two big ones I found was the Olympics and type a government used
to control. During ancient Greece they had a Olympic Games just like today. There
are many, many differences about the Olympics now and then. One is the severely
of winning and losing, if you were to lose back then in ancient Greece were
consider as a failure to many, where now just making it to the Olympics a thing to celebrate. If you would have won in
ancient Greece you were somewhat of hero, and you were showered with gifts and
love, some cities even gave the winner a life time supply of food. Losing and
winning were such a big deal because the games were put on for the god Zeus and
he was worshiped throughout the whole duration of the games, there were even
animal sacrifices for him during the games. The Olympics were held every four
years in ancient Greece just like they are today. The type of government used
to control the Greeks was a democracy, a way of controlling that let the people
vote for what they wanted instead of just doing what the king/ruler wanted. We use
this same kind of system in today; we use it to vote for government leaders and
laws. In ancient Greece they used it for the same things as we do. One of the
main differences is who could vote, today any one over the age of 18 could vote
in an election but in ancient Greece only middle and upper class land owning
males could participate in voting.
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