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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.
A kome (Ancient Greek: κώμη) was typically a village that was also a political unit. The translation is inexact, but according to Thucydides, Sparta, though it was a polis, resembled four unwalled villages. Similarly, a kome could be a neighbourhood within a larger polis or its own rural settlement.
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.
This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis.Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek.
19th century engraving of the Colossus of Rhodes. Ancient Greek literary sources claim that among the many deities worshipped by a typical Greek city-state (sing. polis, pl. poleis), one consistently held unique status as founding patron and protector of the polis, its citizens, governance and territories, as evidenced by the city's founding myth, and by high levels of investment in the deity ...
Abdera (Greek: Άβδηρα) is a municipality in the Xanthi regional unit of Thrace, Greece.In classical antiquity, it was a major Greek polis on the Thracian coast.. The ancient polis is to be distinguished from the municipality, which was named in its honor.
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, [1] which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last ...
Man and woman wearing the himation Kylix, the most common drinking vessel in ancient Greece The Parthenon, shows the common structural features of Ancient Greek architecture: crepidoma, columns, entablature, and pediment Ancient Greek theatre in Delos Odeon of Herodes Atticus Portrait of Demosthenes, statesman and orator of ancient Athens