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A polis is identified as such by its standing as polis among the community of poleis. Poleis have ambassadors, can join or host the Hellenic Games, etc. According to Aristotle, their most essential characteristics are those that, if changed, would result in a different polis. These are three.
A view of the 'opinion space' visualization tool for a Polis wiki survey. Each user can see how similar their voting behavior is to other voters based on their closeness to one another within the two-dimensional space. Wiki surveys or wikisurveys are a software-based survey method with similarity to how wikis evolve through crowdsourcing. In ...
Polish people, or Poles, [a] are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation [40] [41] [42] who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.
In the first book, Aristotle discusses the city (πόλις, polis) or "political community" (κοινωνία πολιτική, koinōnía politikē) in comparison with other types of communities and partnerships such as the household (οἶκος, oikos), the master/slave relationship, and the village. The highest form of community is the polis.
The Greek sense of the polis, in which citizenship and the rule of law prevailed, was an important strategic advantage for the Greeks during their wars with Persia. [14] The polis was grounded in nomos, the rule of law, which meant that no man—no matter who he might be—was master, and all men were subject to the same rules.
Polis made history in 2011, when the then-lawmaker became the first gay parent in Congress. In January 2019 he made history again, when he was sworn in as the nation’s first openly gay governor.
A democratic Athens with an imperial policy will spread the desire for democracy outside of the polis. The democratic government depends on the control of resources, which requires military power and material exploitation. The values of freedom of equality include non-citizens more than it should.
The city of Athens (Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athênai [a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯]; Modern Greek: Αθήναι, Athine [a.ˈθi.ne̞] or, more commonly and in singular, Αθήνα, Athina [a.'θi.na]) during the classical period of ancient Greece (480–323 BC) [1] was the major urban centre of the notable polis of the same name, located in Attica ...