Category talk:Poleis

First of all: sorry for my English.
As a historian I would like to make a couple of appreciations: It is often said in a didactic way that a polis is a city-state. This is not exactly like this. Greek cities were already considered poleis centuries before they can be conceptually defined as States. In the same way, although Athens paradigmatically complies with the idea of city-state, the condition of the rest is very debatable. In fact although Athens as a polis dates from several centuries before the sixth century b.C., can hardly be considered "state" before Solon and even Cleisthenes (vi CENTURY).
On the other hand, for example, Sparta was NEVER a city-state as such: It was actually made up of 4 villages, which never came to melt (synecism) as such.
That is why I propose to abstain from using the concept of "city-state" when talking about the Greek poleis due to their inaccuracy.
A greeting.

Spanish assassin (Talk) 13:21, June 25, 2018 (UTC)