How Did Ancient Greek Influence Today's Government

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Ancient Greece is remembered for many things including philosophy, art, mythology, and structured government among other things. It was made of city-states, each with slightly different societies. Ancient Greece was important because it influenced today's government, contributed to art and literature, and its religion. First of all, not all city-states had the same type government. Though democracy is the most well-known government of Greece, many other city-states were monarchies or even tyrannies. Sparta was an oligarchy, Epeiros and Macedonia were monarchies, and many were ruled by tyrants. Athens had a direct democracy and has influenced many modern governments. Ancient Greece is also important because of its art, literature, philosophy,