Greek Reporter

What Were Greek Cities Like in the Age of Homer?

The world described by Homer reveals a very different picture of Greek cities and political power before the rise of ...
StrategyPage

Book Review: Greek Warfare beyond the Polis: Defense, Strategy, and the Making of Ancient Federal States

While part of the Hellenic world, the peoples of the upland regions – the Arcadians, Phocians, Aetolians, Acarnanians, and others – were largely regarded as “backward” both by the peoples of the more ...
The American Conservative

When Greece Was Rich—and Why

Did political decentralization foster classical civilization? That is one of the central claims of this fascinating new work of analytical history by the Stanford political scientist and classicist ...
StrategyPage

Book Review: Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Pp. xxii. 713. Illus., maps, tables, figures, chron., notes, biblio., index. $49.95 / £42.00. ISBN:0691155380 A ...