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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. Some of the divine ancestors of the royal houses were.

Ancient Greece For Kids 25 Famous People Of Ancient Greece

Deucalion was the Greek Noah the survivor of a flood that destroyed the human race.

Rulers in ancient greece. In the preceding centuries the dominant geopolitical unit was the polis or city-state. Some of these city-states were being managed by rich influential groups of people. Greek city-states were governed by a variety of entities including kings oligarchies tyrants and as in the case of Athens a democracy.

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. Some of the noteworthy rulers of ancient Greece are as follows. Queen Artemisia II of Karia was another prominent ancient Greek queen of the Persian satrapy of Karia who ruled about a century and a half after the first Artemisia of Karia.

Ancient Greece was a society where we can observe both these lines of thought. Rulers of Ancient Greece. She was named for the goddess Artemisia but Herodotus born.

355281 BC Cassander king of Macedon 358297 BC. A single ruler such as a king queen or emperor holds all the power in a country or empire. Draco 621 BC was an Athenian politician and law codifier.

Several people rule a country or empire together sharing the power. Artemisia II became queen of Karia in 353 BC after the death of her husband Mausolos who was also her brother the previous ruler of Karia. While Athens practiced democracy Sparta was ruled by two Greek mythology kings and a group of elders.

The ancient Greeks believed that their ruling families were descended from their gods. Each contribution covers both ancient China and the Mediterranean in an accessible manner. City-states in Ancient Greece had many different types of government.

It was this descent that gave kings their right to rule. 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. 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.

Embarking from the observation that Greek Roman and Han-Chinese societies were governed by comparable features the contributors to this volume explain the dynamic interplay between political rulers and the ruled masses in their culture specific. These governments were called monarchy oligarchy tyranny or democracy.