polis
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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
Some few women even served in political office – for example, a woman served as a magistrate in the polis of Histria, on the shores of the Black Sea, in the first century BCE.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
These shouters scare me to the bone, they seem so much like the polis and Border Patrol—those bad ones who tried to stop me.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
When the Greek cities of Ionia rose up against Persian rule, Darius vowed to make an example not just of them, but of the Greek poleis that had aided them, including Athens.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Despite the Persian naval loss, Xerxes’ army was easily able to march across Greece and ransack various poleis and farmlands; it even sacked Athens itself, which had been evacuated earlier.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Open war finally broke out between the two cities in 431 BCE after two of their respective allied poleis started a conflict and Athens tried to influence the political decisions of Spartan allies.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Cyrus swiftly defeated the Greek poleis, but instead of punishing the Greeks for opposing him he allowed them to keep their language, religion, and culture, simply insisting they give him loyal warriors and offer tribute.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
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 Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
