As I prepare to write a post concerning ancient Western civilization, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or last post and might interest you further.
Aristotle
What is your opinion on Aristotle's works? Just because he was a smart man does not mean he was always right, with modern discoveries we know he got some facts wrong. What do you think about his more spiritual lectures?
Classical Greece
In Sparta, there was a need for further population, and there were laws put in place to toughen up boys, via taking them away from their homes, and toughen up the girls for when their husbands were away, so they would know how to own and run properties. To the modern audience looking into this, this is obscure and severe, do you think that there was any right to this? There was a need for men to be tougher, and the women to be educated, strong leaders, What was too extreme? What might have been done right? As I am an American, I can only speak for the USA, but the world isn't very tough, many aren't educated, and don't know how to lead.
In Athens, police became a thing. Why is it that we went to not being governed at all, the peoples' wrath was the only punishment for wrong doing, to being punished as harshly for stealing bread as you would for being a serial killer? Why did we get so harsh so fast?
The Persian War
When thinking about any war, you must think about the perspective of each and every side involved. In the Persian War, much like any war, everyone thinks that they are right, even if everyone is wrong. Who do you side with? The Athenians, or the Persians? Do you disagree with both? What was done right during this controversy?
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