Zucas said:
Yes but Greek city-states aren't the best example, mainly because they were a Theocracy. Obivously its hard to tell because we look at it from a different stance, but there was no separation of church and state in Ancient Greece. There was never anything like that back then, because that was absurd then. So while having a from of democracy, is was also very religious which obviously conflicting theocracies will clash. Which the greek city-states did all the time. Not that they believed in different gods, but obvious we know that never plays into anything haha. |
Actually it was unheard of that the "king" or leaders were related to the gods in Greek city-states. It was only after Alexander the Great invaded Persia that the kings were related to the gods. It was mostly because the foreign population they ruled over believed that crap and it was a way to legitimise their power. Seleukos and the Ptolemaios are good examples of this. Religion wasn't the reason why the city-states waged war.
Not all city-states were democracies though, you also had a lot of oligarchies.
