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Olynthus became a Greek polis, but it remained insignificant (in the quota-lists of the Delian League it appears as paying on the average 2 talents, as compared with 6 to 15 paid by Scione, 6 to 15 by Mende, 6 to 12 by Toroni, and 3 to 6 by Sermylia from 454 to 432).
Polis (Greek: πόλις, lit. 'city-state') was an ancient Greek board game. One of the earliest known strategy games, polis was a wargame resembling checkers.Its name appears in the Ancient Greek literature from around 450 BC to the 2nd century BC, and it seems to have been widely known in the region, particularly in Athens.
Plato analyzes the polis in the Republic, the Greek title of which, Πολιτεία , itself derives from the word polis. The best form of government of the polis for Plato is the one that leads to the common good. The philosopher king is the best ruler because, as a philosopher, he is acquainted with the Form of the Good.
A katoikia (Ancient Greek: κατοικία) was similar to a polis, typically a military colony, [2] with some municipal institutions, but not those of a full polis. The word derives from the Ancient Greek: κατοικέω for "to inhabit" (a settlement) and is somewhat similar [citation needed] to the Latin civitas.
diagrams.net (previously draw.io [2] [3]) is a cross-platform graph drawing software application developed in HTML5 and JavaScript. [4] Its interface can be used to create diagrams such as flowcharts , wireframes , UML diagrams, organizational charts , and network diagrams .
A kleroterion in the Ancient Agora Museum (Athens) A large kleroterion at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology in Reading, Berkshire A kleroterion (Ancient Greek: κληρωτήριον, romanized: klērōtērion) was a randomization device used by the Athenian polis during the period of democracy to select citizens to the boule, to most state offices, to the nomothetai, and to court juries.
Temnos or Temnus (Ancient Greek: Τῆμνος; Aeolic Greek: Τᾶμνος [1]) was a small Greek polis (city-state) of ancient Aeolis, later incorporated in the Roman province of Asia, on the western coast of Anatolia.
Western gate of Nicopolis, an example of a new polis created by the synoecism of a number of others, which were left abandoned; i.e., Augustus relocated the populations of the surrounding poleis into a new central polis called "Victory City" to commemorate the naval battle of Actium in 31 BC. The reasons were undoubtedly economic, as the new ...