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Today in Mr. Schick’s western civilization class, we continued going over the power point on ancient Greece. We continued learning about the Greek political systems and how the government worked. The class found out that the aristocrats ran Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC and that an aristocrat is a part of the ruling class. The symposiums were meetings where elite men would enjoy wine and poetry and performances by dancers and acrobats. There were no women, middle class, or slaves involved in politics, meaning they had no voice. The Greek definition for tyrant is one who simply seized power. The tyrant would use hoplites, well-armed soldiers, to overthrow the current ruling government. The modern mean of tyrant is different and is a ruler who is oppressive or abusive to his citizens. We learned about Draco and Solon’s reform. The word draconian means to be unnecessarily harsh with laws.