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Although Athens is the most familiar of the democratic city-states in ancient Greece, it was not the only one, nor was it the first; multiple other city-states adopted similar democratic constitutions before Athens. [2] [3] By the late 4th century BC, as many as half of the over one thousand existing Greek cities might have been democracies. [4]
Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilisation, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and communities.
Eric W. Robinson, Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2003. Josiah Ober, "The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece", Princeton University Press, 2015. This government -related article is a stub .
The basic unit of politics in Ancient Greece was the polis (Ancient Greek: πόλις), sometimes translated as "city-state". The term lends itself to the modern English word "politics", which literally means "the things of the polis". At least in theory, each polis was politically independent.
Government of Ancient Greece; H. Harmost; S. Stasis (ancient Greece) T. Tyrant This page was last edited on 25 May 2022, at 06:02 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
In ancient times, Greece was the birthplace of Western culture. [ 342 ] [ 343 ] Modern democracies owe a debt to Greek beliefs in government by the people, trial by jury, and equality under the law. The ancient Greeks pioneered in many fields that rely on systematic thought, including logic , biology , geometry , government, geography ...
Modern democracies owe a debt to Greek beliefs in government by the people, trial by jury, and equality under the law. The ancient Greeks pioneered in many fields that rely on systematic thought, including biology, geometry, history, [1] philosophy, and physics. They introduced important literary forms as epic and lyric poetry, history, tragedy ...
Ancient Athens, in the first millennium BC, occupied a very small area compared to the sprawling metropolis of modern Greece. The ancient walled city encompassed an area measuring about two kilometres (1.5 mi) from east to west and slightly less than that from north to south, although at its peak the ancient city had suburbs extending well ...