polis

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Playwrights addressed the polis not by dramatizing current events but by recasting tales from the mythological and historic past to sharpen critical thinking on contemporary concerns.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025

They were woven into the fabric of a democratic polis.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025

Now protected by their own walls, and in possession of all the civic tools needed to form their own polis, the Helots were liberated from Spartan tyranny at long last.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2024

In turn, Sparta and Athens were, especially in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, rivals for the position of the most powerful polis in Greece.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

How could I have survived the Beast journey, the gangs, the polis, the big-river crossing, only to die by tree?

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads