The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

But what was the polis, exactly?The difficulty of translating the term is a clue to its complexity: Neither “city” nor “city-state” nor “republic” is fully adequate; the Greek word ...

And so in the thinking of the Founders, the Roman Republic, the Greek polis, and the political and legal practices of Biblical Israel all found a place in this new political dispensation.

Herodotos was an Ionian Greek. He was born in Halicarnassus / Halikarnassos, a Greek polis in Ionia, the coastline of Asia Minor facing the Aegean Sea.

This was the tradition of the Greek polis, from which Arendt drew much of her inspiration, a place designed “to multiply the chances for everybody to distinguish himself, to show in deed and word who ...

Prologue. The modern dream for the Getty Villa caught fire in Herculaneum or Herakleion, a small Greek polis on the outskirts of Neapolis (Naples) and on the lower slopes of Mount Vesuvius.

A Comprehensive History of the Ancient Greek 'City-States' that Goes Beyond the famous places like Athens or Sparta . The city-state (polis in Greek, plural poleis) was one of the most important forms ...

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 ...