Talk:Polis

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"Each city was composed of several tribes or demes, which were in turn composed of phratries and finally gentes" -this seems misleading: Cleisthenes established these divisions for Athens, certainly; however, the constitutional organization of Greek city-states was not uniform. While it might be the case that city besides Athens adopted the structure you suggest, to say "each city" implies that this was somehow the typical structure. As counter-examples, take Thebes, Sparta, and Corinth, three major city-states that had widely different systems of organization.

[edit] Slang

This is just one of several cases I have come across recently. In my opinion, it would be very useful to include a "slang" section on words that have come to have very different meanings when used in the modern world. As a quick example, I am working on an essay for my English class, and in the essay the word 'polis' is used as such: "What could be more polis?" Using slang is always dangerous, because of the chance that readers will not be familiar with the same slang as the author. Adding a 'slang' section to Wikipedia - and possibly Wiktionary - articles would help alleviate, and maybe one day eliminate, this problem.

This page is a complete mess!!! Can some kind scholar of Ancient Greece re-do this?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.87.35.108 (talk) 18:13, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Might be nice to expand the section on the actual city-states

I mean the sections on things derived from the term are longer, and there isn't much meat for the main topic of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.121.47.140 (talk) 21:50, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Monica Pomeroy

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