The other Greek city-states: Ancient Greece ... Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained an estimated population of about 200,000 people in the year 500 BC.

A new study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization presents an alternative explanation for how city-states emerged in ancient Greece.Instead of being solely the result of war, ...

Greek city-states were governed by a range of regimes, but, by the fourth century BCE, ... By the time Plato was writing the Republic, in the early fourth century BCE, ...

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A Comprehensive History of the Ancient Greek 'City-States' that Goes Beyond the famous places like Athens or Sparta . The city-state (polis in Greek, plural poleis) was one of the most important forms ...

A city with a population equivalent to that of Wichita, Kansas, it was an unlikely candidate for greatness: Other Greek city-states were larger (Syracuse) or wealthier (Corinth) or mightier (Sparta).

The other Greek city-states: Ancient Greece ... Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained an estimated population of about 200,000 people in the year 500 BC.