place

Polis

Places

A Greek city-state as a political settlement form. Not city as a bare size-word, and not Athens as one named seat alone.

Also known as Poleis

Hellenic religion

  • Polis appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias organizes the Description by polis after polis—walls, cults, and local myth tied to each city. A named polis unit in that periegesis, not every modern “city-state” slogan and not athens alone.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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