2023年3月18日 · The Ancient Greek poleis developed during the Archaic period as the ancestors of the Ancient Greek city, state and citizenship and persisted (though with decreasing influence) well into Roman times, when the equivalent Latin word was civitas, also meaning 'citizenhood', whilst municipium in Latin meant a non-sovereign town or city. The term ...

2014年1月20日 · Corinth was the commercial capital of ancient Greece (at least until it was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC) because it possessed two seaports on the Saronic and Corinthian Gulfs. All traders passing through from Asia to Italy and vice versa were required to use coinage minted only by the city which it then taxed, making it extremely wealthy ...

2017年4月30日 · There were many more. Most famous city-states beside Athens and Sparta are probably Thebes and Corinth. Thebes is famous mostly for its victory against the Spartans at Leuctra in 371 BC which ended Spartan hegemony and established short-living Theban dominance over other Greek cities.

2024年12月13日 · Of course medieval Ireland was much less densely populated than ancient Greece, so the average population of a medieval Irish kingdom was much less than that of an ancient Greek city state. I have read that that the population of medieval Ireland is estimated to have been about 500,000 to 1,000,000 during different centuries.

2022年1月28日 · Adjusting for the overrepresentation of large-city states (which was done by Hansen and later revised by Ober using a slightly different method), the total walled area of all Greek 1100 city states can be estimated at 55,000 hectares, which given 5 inhabitants per house, a density of 30 houses per hectare (a conservative estimate, given ...

2012年12月14日 · 1. The ancient Greek historian Thoucydides wrote that Epirotes were barbarians. The term barbarian means that they didn't speak Greek and they were not Greeks. 2. The ancient geographer Strabo did not consider Epirus as a part of Greece. 3. Other ancient Greek geographer wrote that the first Greek city was Acarnania, and that this city located ...

2014年3月2日 · A bronze Greek soldier figurine 42cm high was found in a burial north of the Tian Shan mountains 4th-3rd century BCE and is now displayed in Urumqi Museum Xinjiang, Chinese Turkistan. I think all cultures in this world are related somehow with each other but still possess their portion of distinctive originalities.

2015年2月28日 · -House and Society in the Ancient Greek World, by Lisa C. Nevett "Mud-brick and wood evidently remained the normal building material for the walls of Etruscan temples and houses down to the last centuries of Etruscan history, in contrast to the Egyptian and Greek stone-built temples. This perishable material doomed Etruscan domestic ...

2022年3月23日 · Levels of direct democracy have been practised in certain countries such as Switzerland and USA, with ancient Greece being the forefather. Britannica encycopedia The most important historical reference of direct democracy is to assembly democracy in ancient Greek city-states , particularly Athens , where decisions were taken by an Assembly ...

As a new student of ancient Greek, I can affirm that Greek dialects were mutually intelligible. Homeric, Ionic, Attic, Doric and Aeolic could be understood when two speakers of different dialects spoke to one another (though of course, Homeric or Epic Greek is based on the language Homer used, which fits no one dialect and must be called its ...