While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and ...

It is widely believed that there were more poets in Sparta during the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. than in any other Greek city-state. Full citizens had ample time for entertainments because ...

A final reason behind the development of city-states was the Greek aristocracy, who acted to prevent any permanent monarchies from forming. They defended the political independence of their cities ...

Each city-state ruled itself. They had their own governments, laws and army. Someone living in Sparta would call themselves Spartan first, and Greek second. Famously, the city-states didn’t get ...