Books & the Arts / For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to ...

Ancient Greece was never a centralized and united country. It was a network of dispersed city-states, called polis or poleis ...

The Greek polis found it important to reflect in real time together on moral conundrums in theatrical space. Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy for flawed human ...

notes, biblio., index. $49.95 / £42.00. ISBN:0691155380 A Comprehensive History of the Ancient Greek 'City-States' that Goes Beyond the famous places like Athens or Sparta The city-state (polis in ...

With military service being obligatory for citizenship in the Greek polis, the average Greek man was well-versed in close combat. Out of the clash of phalanxes came a combat art based on real ...

Several factors seem to have been involved. One is the rise of the Greek polis, or city-state. As city-states in different locations grew, each wanted a means of asserting its supremacy ...

The polis and extended chora of Tauric Chersonese form an outstanding example of an ancient cultural landscape, consisting of a Greek polis and its agricultural hinterland established as part of ...