Humanitarianism In Ancient Greece

Sanction 1
Introduction
In the ancient Greece city-state the exiles and refugees were very distinguished. Values, ideologies and debates that ancient Greeks of the cities raised about refuge, hospitality and aid to displaced outsiders is the main point on this sanction. A great importance have the three ideals which had a dominant role in the debate that ancient Greek arise about how and when have to grand refuge and asylum to people that were displaced, which keep on rising Western debates nowadays related to refugee status and asylum.
The ideal of ‘Humanitarianism’ and the meaning of it is going to be discussed here first. The philosophy and the practice of humanitarianism concept had influenced the modern society in different ways that

Tragic drama can considered one of the richest sources of evidence of Athenian national ideology and also is one of the richest surviving sources of evidence for Athenian civic ideology and castrate moral reflection5. The example that I will provide come from Aeschylus dated in later 460s BC, (the first of the three major Athenian tragic playwrights), that direct issue the case of refugee assistance. The tragedy is named ( Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women, which drew on the Greek myths about the Danaids, the 50 daughters of Danaus), that run away from Egypt because they did not want to marry with force their cousin, the sons of King Aegyptus. The plays that Aeschylus wrote were performed in festival that took plays in public of Athenians. Inside of this deep political concept we can understand why Athenians tragedies had a deep connection with national debates and political

The quasi-democratic state, Argos, in Aeschilous tragedy, provide refuge, with formal legal assurances, to people that require it in a formal way when they need protection because they are persecuted from they community leaders. In this way, implemented by Zeus, state recognized universal duties towards all humans that were in need. These duties are ‘universal’ because in this way is shown respect to the actual spirituality: from the where the suppliant come or the characteristics that he has do not play important role, because all the people are same treated when they are