POL200Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Greek Language, Ethnocentrism, Eugenics
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In the lassical period there were 1000 of them, athenian polis. Athens is weird, not representative. most polis would have less than 5,000 and athens had 40,000. Polis is not the same thing as a city, certain kind of political community, not the same as the geographical location. Sparta doesnt need walls, men will fight. Men = army. polis = citizens = army. Greeks thought that freedom was to choose who fights. Giving law to oneself, it was this that made the greek"s life political rather than. What we know as commonwealth here, the greek call. The classical period ->height of the greek world. What we mean by republics is different than the greeks and romans, Greeks did not call themselves greek - helenic world not greek world. Greeks are people who speak the greek language. Masedonians spoke greek considered them greek, greeks considered them barbarian.
