Talk:List of ancient Greek cities
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What is considered "Ancient", what is considered "Greek" and what is considered "a city"? All of these things affect the scope of this list. For example, Knossos was a center of Minoan culture but I am not sure about later Greek inhabitation. Are Minoan centers considered Greek? What about Mycenaean? Mycenae itself was inhabited by a small population at least until the Persian wars. What is the cutoff date for "Ancient"?
What about Alexander? Since he captured Babylon, should that be considered a "Greek" city?
Delphi was an important sactuary, but was not really a city. Is the Piraeus consided a city separate from Athens?
Using the greek term of "polis" may be slightly less ambiguous for this article.
Also, since this is a list of Greek cities, the ancient Greek names should probably be used when possible.
Possibilities:
Organize list by modern country
Organize list by mother city (for colonies)
Unless I am greatly misinformed, there were never any Greek cities in Japan. Especially the ancient kind. Unless somebody shows some evidence I am going to revert that last edit.--SkiDragon 20:09, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Please explain to my how Macedon could possibly be considered a "city". Especially a "Greek city".--SkiDragon 06:49, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
