Polis
A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity
by John Ma
- Publication
- First published 2024
- ISBN
- 9780691260037, 9780691255484, 9780691155388
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After Chaironeia
Classical Athens was a polis, but so was a tiny Arcadian town such as Orchomenos. In the second century AD, the obscure hamlet of Naryka petitioned the Emperor Hadrian to agree it was a polis, offering as proof its institutions and its mythical past as the supposed birthplace of the lesser Ajax in…
Rosalind Thomas