polis
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Creon, representing the claims of the polis over the clan, cannot be dismissed outright.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Playwrights addressed the polis not by dramatizing current events but by recasting tales from the mythological and historic past to sharpen critical thinking on contemporary concerns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
They were woven into the fabric of a democratic polis.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2025
Now protected by their own walls, and in possession of all the civic tools needed to form their own polis, the Helots were liberated from Spartan tyranny at long last.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2024
The house will be squashed and I will be caught by polis.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
Wars were temporarily suspended and all Greek poleis agreed to let athletes travel with safe passage to take part in the games, in part because the Olympics were dedicated to Zeus, the chief Greek god.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
The poleis also invented institutions that united the cities culturally, despite their political independence, the most important of which was the Panhellenic games.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Likewise, citizenship, which had been the basic unit of political currency in the ancient poleis, became instead a mark of elite membership that could be won in multiple cities at the same time.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Rome split Mace-don into puppet republics, plundered Macedon’s allies, and lorded over the remaining Greek poleis.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
The Hellenic municipalities were developments from the poleis, or city-states, which existed prior to the Roman conquest in Greece and the Hellenized areas of Asia and Africa.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
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