| What we call the ancient Greek world was really hundreds of independent city-states or poleis. |
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| In many poleis, the common hearth of the polis, the koine hestia, which was also an altar-hearth for Hestia, was located in the prytaneion. |
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| King Darius managed to build up the Persian Empire and now controlled Asia Minor, including Greek poleis on the west coast. |
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| First, it is safe to say that Attica's huge size and favourable configuration made it unusual by any standards among Greek poleis. |
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| There were several hundred poleis in ancient Greece, many very small. |
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| There were several hundred poleis, the history and constitutions of most of which are known only sketchily if at all. |
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| These city-states, similar to the Greek poleis, consisted of an urban centre and a territory of fluctuating size. |
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| In the Hellenistic Age the political freedom of most poleis was curtailed, since they came under the ascendancy of the large territorial monarchies of Macedonian origin. |
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| Determining when exactly something happened would have become increasingly complicated, depending on how many poleis were involved. |
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| Six of the nine Brigantian poleis described by Claudius Ptolemaeus in the Geographia fall within the historic county. |
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| By the end of the century, poleis had been established throughout the Hellenic world, all bearing a marked family resemblance. |
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| Calauria, the small island now called Póros, was not a place of any consequence in itself, but the league's seven members included Athens and Aegina, two major Greek poleis. |
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| Instead the poleis grouped themselves into leagues, membership of which was in a constant state of flux. |
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| In the intervening period, the poleis of Greece were able to wrest back some of their freedom, although still nominally subject to the Macedonian Kingdom. |
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| Inevitably, the domination of politics and concomitant aggregation of wealth by small groups of families was apt to cause social unrest in many poleis. |
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