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

When Greeks established a colony, it became an independent polis with its own laws.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

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