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Polis ( / ˈpɒlɪs /, US: / ˈpoʊlɪs /; Greek: πόλις, Greek pronunciation: [pólis] ), plural poleis ( / ˈpɒleɪz /, πόλεις, Greek pronunciation: [póleːs] ), means ‘city’ in ancient Greek. The modern Greek word πόλη (polē) is a direct descendant of the ancient word and roughly means "city" or an urban place.
Politics ( Πολιτικά, Politiká) is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. At the end of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle declared that the inquiry into ethics leads into a discussion of politics. The two works are frequently considered to be parts of a larger treatise — or perhaps connected ...
Politeia ( πολιτεία) is an ancient Greek word used in Greek political thought, especially that of Plato and Aristotle. Derived from the word polis ("city-state"), it has a range of meanings from "the rights of citizens" to a "form of government".
Ancient Greek literary sources claim that among the many deities worshipped by a typical Greek city-state (sing. polis, pl. poleis), one consistently held unique status as founding patron and protector of the polis, its citizens, governance and territories, as evidenced by the city's founding myth, and by high levels of investment in the deity's temple and civic cult.
In Greek, words deriving from polis include politēs and politismos, whose exact equivalents in Latin, Romance, and other European languages, respectively civis ("citizen"), civilisatio ("civilisation"), etc., are similarly derived. A number of other common nouns end in -polis. Most refer to a special kind of city or state.
The Republic ( Greek: Πολιτεία, translit. Politeia; Latin: De Republica [1]) is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BC, concerning justice ( δικαιοσύνη ), the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. [2]
An acropolis is defined by the Greek definition of ἀκρόπολις, akropolis; from akros ( άκρος) or akron ( άκρον) meaning “highest; edge; extremity”, and polis ( πόλις) meaning “city.”. The plural of acropolis ( ακρόπολη) is acropolises, also commonly as acropoleis and acropoles, and ακροπόλεις in ...
The agora ( / ˈæɡərə /; Ancient Greek: ἀγορά, romanized: agorá, meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states. It is the best representation of a city-state's response to accommodate the social and political order of the polis. [1] The literal meaning of the word "agora" is "gathering ...