Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained ...

The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy specialising in history, economics, archaeology and ...

Ancient Greece was famously a world of city-states ... most were part of multi-state communities, political alliances, ...

But Ancient Greece isn’t one big country. Our civilisation has grown from small, rival communities, often cut off from each other by mountains, rivers and the sea, to create the city-states ...

Roberts A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity John Ma A ...

Justin Jacobs, author and expert in modern Chinese history, discusses loot, antiquity, and imperialism in his new book.

It has three main goals: to identify where and when democratic governments established themselves in ancient Greek city-states; to explain why democracy spread to many parts of Greece in this period; ...

Three different designs of ancient Greek columns. The Greeks believed ... The Greeks were famous for their clay pots. Potters in the city states of Corinth and Athens made beautiful pottery.

Mythology has been the core of many peoples lives and continues to directly, and indirectly, guide entire civilizations ...

Dating back to 3000BC, the ancient Greek city of Thouria continues to be a marvel for Greek archaeologists, who recently uncovered a previously unknown theatre. As their excavation progresses ...

European cities are known for their historic old towns, and few have a historic old town as impressive as the Croatian coastal city of Split. There, modern shops, bars, and restaurants are housed ...