A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 14
in mind that the Greek state was generallyof very small dimensions. As a rule all life was centred withina city, which had but a moderate extent of outlying country.Aristotle describes the perfect city or state (the words are inter-changeable) as the union of several villages, supplying all that… … It thus came about that it was providedwith systems of treaties, arbitra-tions, and consular representationsuch as marked a fully developedinternational system. Treaties.—The bronze tabletXo. 1 dates probably from thesecond half of the sixth centuryB.C., at a time when the Eleiansand Heraeans of…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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