Author: Carin M.C. Green (Carin M.C. Green)

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Farmers and Thinkers
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Farmers and Thinkers

Between the eighth and sixth centuries B.C. there appeared the polis, the Greek city-state, an elusive entity which nurtured and defined ideals still central to Western European views of all that is “civilized.” How did the Greeks, up until then an unimportant and generally poor folk on the margins of Mediterranean society, manage this miracle?...