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
One of the few local documents to survive from this time, the so-called Constitution of Cyrene, prescribes the kind of political machinery one might expect in a wholly independent polis.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Greek colonies far from Greece were as important as the older poleis in Greece itself, since they created a common Greek civilization across the entire Mediterranean world.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
In 499 BCE several Ionian Greek poleis rose against the Persians and successfully secured Athenian aid.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
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
Thus, it was all too easy for Athens to simply use the League to drain the other poleis of wealth while building up its own power.
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 Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
