Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained ...

But Ancient Greece isn’t one big country. Our civilisation has grown from small, rival communities, often cut off from each other by mountains, rivers and the sea, to create the city-states ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states and independent towns, rather than by one all-powerful king, is its geography. The country's mountainous terrain, many ...

Ancient Greece was famously a world of city-states (polises), with hundreds of them dotting the Mediterranean coast. During ...

Ancient Greek laws against tyrants permitted the killing of authoritarians who attacked democracy. Still, popular sovereignty ...

The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy specialising in history, economics, archaeology and ...

There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’. Greece was divided up into small city-states: Athens Sparta Corinth Olympia So, ancient Greeks living in Sparta considered themselves ...

The agoras of the ancient Greek city-states were open areas for people to assemble for everything from political gatherings to public debates. Ancient Agora is the most popular of its kind ...

Other ancient coastal Aegean cities worth visiting ... Unlike the independent Greek city-states of the Balkan Peninsula, the Greek cities of the Anatolian coast were under the control of the ...

Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually run the distance ... As this story goes, by the time he reaches the city state of Sparta, in the space of 36 hours, Pheidippides has covered an ...

To make a serious comparison between Confucianism and ancient Greek philosophy, one must look further back, to the many ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered ... the meeting place of Classical Greek cities. A guest might even bring one of his own friends along, too, without a formal invitation, a role ...