The word polis is used in the first known work of Greek literature, the Iliad, a maximum of 350 times. The few hundred ancient Greek classical works on line at the See more

The subjective element of a model
In modern historiography of the ancient world πόλις is often transliterated to polis without any attempt … See more

• History of the polis
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• POLIS by Stanford University, map and table of classical and archaic poleis as well as a list of personae from the fragments. See more

Aristotle's polis
Modern theorists of the polis are theorizing under a major disadvantage: their topic has not been current for thousands of years. It is not left to the moderns to redefine polis as though it were a living institution. All that … See more

• Coulanges, Fustal de (1901). The Ancient City: Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (PDF). Translated by … See more