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Historiography Transliterated Eric Voegelin Model Ancient Greek literature

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Demonym(s): Dēmos in the Attic-Ionic dialects or dãmos in the Doric. The demonym was formed by producing the name of a people from the name of the polis. For example, the polis of Athens wa…
• Body: The assembly, or ekklesia, although in the more autocratic forms of administration, it met rarely. Magistrates performed the day-to-day governing, called archons.
• max area of 60% of poleis: 100 km2 (39 sq mi)
• max area of 80% of poleis: 200 km2 (77 sq mi)
• Total: 7,500,000+
• Type: Republic, or commonwealth. The ultimate authority was considered to reside in the citizenry, the demos, despite the broad variation in the form of the administration.

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related to Sources · 65

Polis → An Inventory, An Update, Ancient History, Appendix, Archaic, Athens, Boston, Byzantine Studies, Calvert, Classical Poleis, Co, Coulanges, Eric, Fowler, Fustal, Greece, Greek, Greeks, Hansen, History

related to Problems with the city-state · 25

Polis → Achaean, Achaeans, As, City-states, Coulanges, Dorian, English, Fowler, Greek, He, Hellas, Herder, It, Lacedaemon, Lacedaemonians, Moreover, Perioeci, Roman, Stadtstaat, The

related to Problems with Coulanges' ancient city · 18

Polis → Corresponding, Coulanges, English, French La Cite, Go, Greek, Greeks, IE, Indo-European, Italians, Italic, Italics, Latin, One, Only, The, The Greeks, This

related to The subjective element of a model · 16

Polis → Aegean, Dark Age, Dorian, Doric, English, Eric Voegelin, For, Greek, Hellenic, In, Quite, The, The Greeks, The World, This, Voegelin

related to Definition · 12

Polis → Athenian, BC, Dionysius, Greek, Halicarnassus, Hesiod, Homer, Iliad, Perseus Digital Library, Plato, The, There

related to Aristotle's polis · 11

Polis → According, Aristotle, Aside, For, Greeks, Hellenic Games, Poleis, Politics, Politiká, The, These

related to The polis as state · 10

Polis → Citizens, Constitution, It, Like, Politeia, Politics, The, There, This, To

related to The polis as community · 9

Polis → Aristotle's, At, Families, Men, Other, Politics, The, This, Thus

is a · 4

Polis → binding and irrevocable agreement between formerly separate populations to form a united and indissoluable commonwealth, community, community of villages, hierarchy of community

related to Modern usage · 3

Polis → Ancient Greek, However, The Modern Greek

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Polis	Demonym(s)	Dēmos in the Attic-Ionic dialects or dãmos in the Doric. The demonym was formed by producing the name of a people from the name of the polis. For example, the polis of Athens wa…	1.00	infobox
Polis	• Body	The assembly, or ekklesia, although in the more autocratic forms of administration, it met rarely. Magistrates performed the day-to-day governing, called archons.	1.00	infobox
Polis	• max area of 60% of poleis	100 km2 (39 sq mi)	1.00	infobox
Polis	• max area of 80% of poleis	200 km2 (77 sq mi)	1.00	infobox
Polis	• Total	7,500,000+	1.00	infobox
Polis	• Type	Republic, or commonwealth. The ultimate authority was considered to reside in the citizenry, the demos, despite the broad variation in the form of the administration.	1.00	infobox
Polis	is a	community	0.90	text
Polis	is a	hierarchy of community	0.90	text
Polis	is a	community of villages	0.90	text
Polis	is a	binding and irrevocable agreement between formerly separate populations to form a united and indissoluable commonwealth	0.90	text
this the author intends to define polis himself	instance of	In works	0.80	text
it survives	instance of	does not much resemble the history of cities	0.80	text

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