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 ...

One major reason why ancient Greece was dominated by small city-states and independent towns, rather than by one all-powerful king, is its geography. The country's mountainous terrain, many ...

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 ...

Ancient Greece was famously a world of city-states (polises), with hundreds of them dotting the Mediterranean coast. During ...

While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

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 Greek laws against tyrants permitted the killing of authoritarians who attacked democracy. Still, popular sovereignty ...

There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’. Greece was divided up into small city-states: Athens Sparta Corinth Olympia So, ancient Greeks living in Sparta considered themselves ...

Major discoveries, from ancient tombs to submerged cities, reveal the incredible advancements of Greek civilization.

The agoras of the ancient Greek city-states were open areas for people to assemble for everything from political gatherings to public debates. Ancient Agora is the most popular of its kind ...

Other ancient coastal Aegean cities worth visiting ... Unlike the independent Greek city-states of the Balkan Peninsula, the Greek cities of the Anatolian coast were under the control of the ...

along with State Secretary Krešimir Partl, participated in the presentation of an extraordinary archaeological find. The site, located in the heart of the town, has been identified as part of the ...