poleis

The Persian wars? in which a tiny, fragmented and often argumentative coalition of between 30 and 40 Greek city-states, or poleis, fought off invasion by a mighty empire stretching from Turkey to Iran and from Egypt to the Aral Sea? remains one of the most sensational events in world history.

The National Theatre of Wales does battle with Aeschylus's The Persians 2010

"If it was Greek, it would be poleis," he says, ending the digression.

London's Mayor Issues a Challenge to Gordon Brown 2009

Even if we accept that there is a "classical" conception of political liberty to be found in Republican Rome and in the Greek poleis, is it necessarily always the best?

Archive 2008-06-29 papabear 2008

Even if we accept that there is a "classical" conception of political liberty to be found in Republican Rome and in the Greek poleis, is it necessarily always the best?

Archive 2008-07-01 papabear 2008

It all started in the ancient Greek city-states, in the slave-owning aristocratic or democratic poleis (πüλεις).

Greek Student Revolts and Brutal Capital Accumulation 2008

Before then its appearance is, on ‎ the whole, limited to the Greek poleis, the Roman Republic, and the mediaeval European ‎ city-states.

The Seven Dimensions 2007

They also embrace the negative implication of their high standards: conventional poleis do not, strictly speaking, deserve the name.

Cosmopolitanism Kleingeld, Pauline 2006

He was familiar with most of the Greek poleis, Macedon, the satraps and cities along what is now the western Turkish coast, many of the isles in the Aegean, Persia and its holdings, Egypt, and many other Mediterranean cities.

Kings and Poets 2005

He was familiar with most of the Greek poleis, Macedon, the satraps and cities along what is now the western Turkish coast, many of the isles in the Aegean, Persia and its holdings, Egypt, and many other Mediterranean cities.

March 2005 2005

In the end, when Philip finally advanced into Greece proper, his opponents proved so incapable of uniting or otherwise seriously challenging him that he found himself opposed by the armies of only the two most directly threatened poleis: Athens and Thebes.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003