![]() Among the most famous Greek Poleis (city-states) were: Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Megara, Thebes, Miletus, Delphi, Olympia. The masses had an assembly, but little power (cf. ![]() ![]() In general the rulers were aristocrats: landed nobility. By the end of the period, however, the Greek "polis," or independent city-state, was ruled by a wide variety of systems. These were tribal rulers whose kingdoms were relatively small (there were exceptions: Athens' unification into one city-state reaches far back). Greece appears to have been governed mostly by "kings" at the start of the Archaic period. (these notes are in part cribbed from Romm's introduction to Herodotus: explicit mention is not made each time) ![]() Herodotus introduction Archaic Greece and introduction to Herodotus ![]()
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