Polis

greatly advanced Greek civilization: the polis. In the early Greek world, the polis, or city-state, was an organized community system which encompassed a specific area. Such areas consisted of a town or village and its surrounding areas, the majority of which were relatively small.Although, it seems that the term polis is most commonly associated with the largest Greek city-states, Athens and Sparta. While the modern word “politics” was derived from Greek term polis, this system served as much…

characters. In contrary, Polis is referred to as the man-made laws and religious values of the city, dominated and represented by male characters. In Sophocles’ “Antigone”, Creon is the representation of Polis while his niece, Antigone, is representing oikos. In Aeschylus’s “Agamemnon” also the tyrant king, Agamemnon, is the depiction of polis and his wife, Clytaemestra is the opposition to this depiction. Both tragedies center around the conflict between oikos and Polis and its consequences.…

community, but rather their wellbeing through the community. The question of the day became “what can my polis do for me?”. Xenophon’s entire work depicts continuously without respite, but it also describes the war that raged inside each polis. The hoplite culture historically favors times of war, but it had also allowed for times of peace, times to enjoy the victories.…

order, meaning, and justice are what humans make in the polis by how humans experience the world. The Ancients were more invested in res publica, or the public atmosphere, because they believed that the polis or republic came first before all. Order, meaning, and justice are the components to a republic and the Ancient philosophers dissect how politics create the environment in which people experience the world. These Ancients believe that the polis should be a symbiotic relationship; one that…

How can you determine one great polis more important from another? In the late fourth century, Athenian philosophers began to immerge bringing with them the idea of educating “the whole person. Sparta, on the other hand, still only focused on education for the military. Along with Sparta only concern being the military, they also do not have a steady economy. Athens, however, was very steady regarding economics. Also, in Athens, we see a happy and enjoyable social environment. Around the 4th…

One of the considerable thoughts behind the support of the polis framework was the idea of monetary independence, as well as the complete political (aut-archy), military and protected (auto-nomy) freedom of the state. Along these lines an individuals would be allowed to live as indicated by what were called their…

The Greek polis and the Sumerian city-state were both equally important to the civilization that it belonged to. Although they both were essentially the same thing, both differed in its operation depending on the civilization it belonged to. A Greek polis differs from a Sumerian city-state because a Sumerian city-state had ziggurats, Sumerian city-states relied heavily on agriculture, and Sumerian city-states differed in how they were run. Greek polis gradually advanced during a period known as…

his polis. His goal was to eliminate the lawlessness and disorder that had weakened Sparta and create a new constitution to keep it free. Three of Lycurgus’ reforms to ensure freedom were the youth training and childhood (the agoge), the removal of extravagance and the creation of generalization between the people, and the social code when it came to battle and the consensus. Historically, Sparta remained unconquered until the 3rd c. [500 years] because of this, Sparta remained a free polis. To…

The polis structure characteristic of the ancient Greek world was a direct product of uncontrollable, geographic factors, namely the rugged landscape, access to the Mediterranean Sea, and the islands that mark much of its southern regions. The simultaneous fragmentation and connection allowed by the mountains and sea eventually formed over 1,000 polies in the Greek World. The fragmented nature of these communities served to create unique identities, but united them by language and broader…

our innate way of being, it is what makes us who we are. It is who we are without the influence of polis, society, or state. It is a presumptions that all philosophers make in order to develop their theories about the creation of society and support their beliefs about what the ideal society would look like. Aristotle believes that in nature man is either a “beast or a god”, because without the polis, they are no better than an animal. He says that at the core, man is a political animal and it…