The Polis
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- Created on: 25-09-15 20:52
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- THE POLIS
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- Independent political unit consisting of villages and populated areas, e.g. a town or capital city
- Capital city 'acts as the unit for political purposes' - Bruit Zaidman and Schmitt
- Independent political unit consisting of villages and populated areas, e.g. a town or capital city
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- 'A state of mind' - Wickersham and Pozzi
- An understanding of what comprises a polis, take into account different orders of society and relations between citizens
- Major threat = 'stasis'
- Civil strife, political division, internal war
- Polis had little defence against
- Civil strife, political division, internal war
- 'A state of mind' - Wickersham and Pozzi
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- The whole greek world was something of an abstraction
- Pan-Hellenic = representing all people of Greek origin or ancestry.
- What if anything was the source of Pan-Hellenic?
- greek language different from Barbarians
- Pan-Hellenic event: the olympic games for example
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