Hardy’s then goes onto explain the lifestyles of the Greeks in the fifth century B.C. which obviously he finds very important because he spends two chapters upon this subject. He first explaining the landscape and how it is much the same and that over the past 2,500 hundred years practically nothing has changed. He also goes into the detail of the government and how it is pretty much a direct democracy. He explains the processes of the Council of 500 and the real governing bodies of the Athenians, the Assembly. To it belonged all Athenian males over the age of twenty. The Assembly would meet on the hill of Pynx nearly every ten days. When something was put to a vote, one must be present in order to take part

Hardy then moves onto Rome and explains that from earliest times the family lay at the center of all personal and social relations in Rome and even influenced public and political activities. Religion was the other principal element that shaped early Roman life, and religion and family remained closely intertwined as the twin pillars of Roman society for the five centuries of the Roman Republic.

The Roman aristocrats provided the leadership for the establishment of the Roman Republic, and they continued to dominate it for centuries. During the five centuries of the republic, Rome grew from a small city of 10,000 into a great cosmopolitan metropolis of 1 million whose empire of 15 million subjects encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin. Social and political conflict inevitably arose as the conservative Romans attempted to keep their old values and institutions in place while exercising their authority over subjects of many different nationalities.

I also learned that much of our everyday lives are based upon our knowledge of history of Rome and Greece. Much of our culture and government which we see every day is a reflection of Both Rome and Greece’s. We still practice many of the same rituals and celebrations done by both the Greeks and the Romans. For example, the Olympic Games are still held every four years. We have also taken their athletics to a higher step with the sports we now play. As I have already stated, we also surround our lives with materialistic possessions instead of knowledge, just as Rome did before the fall of the great empire.

Hardy’s next subject to touch on was Greek thought and philosophy

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