The word polis is used in the first known work of Greek literature, the Iliad, a maximum of 350 times. The few hundred ancient … See more

In modern historiography of the ancient world πόλις is often transliterated to polis without any attempt to translate it into the language of the historiographer. For example, Eric Voegelin wrote a work in English enti… See more

Modern theorists of the polis are theorizing under a major disadvantage: their topic has not been current for thousands of years. It is not left to the moderns to redefine polis as though it were a living institution. All that remains to … See more

• History of the polis
• The Other Greeks
• List of ancient Greek cities
• List of modern words formed from Greek polis… See more

• Coulanges, Fustal de (1901). The Ancient City: Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (PDF). Translated by Small, Willard (10th ed.). Boston: Lee and Shepard.
• Fowler, W.Warde (… See more

• POLIS by Stanford University, map and table of classical and archaic poleis as well as a list of personae from the fragments. See more