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Why Don’t More Countries Have City-States in the Modern World?
City-states have played an important role in history, with well-known examples such as ancient Athens, Rome, and the ...
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Draco: The Harshest Lawgiver of the Ancient Greek City of Athens
The ancient Greek lawgiver Draco introduced a new written legal system to Athens, but his code is remembered for its severity ...
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New Research Uncovers What Made Ancient Greek City-States Thrive
New research shows how trade rooted in local resource differences and the conflicts it sparked, made ancient Greek ...
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The Origin of Ancient Greek City-States rewritten
A new study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization presents an alternative explanation for how ...
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Book Review: Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity
notes, biblio., index. $49.95 / £42.00. ISBN:0691155380 A Comprehensive History of the Ancient Greek 'City-States' that Goes Beyond the famous places like Athens or Sparta The city-state (polis in ...
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Hoard of Ancient Gold Coins Found That Were 'Too Valuable' for Everyday Use
Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have unearthed a remarkable hoard of gold coins thought to be more than 2,000 years old in an ancient Greek city ... a Hellenistic city-state located ...
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Louisiana’s connections to ancient Greece might surprise you
The ancient Greek city of Antioch in Syria ... begun in 447 B.C.E. Greek culture flourished in this Greek city-state during the first millennium B.C.E., before Athens fell to Sparta.