*Archaic Period- Development of the Polis and Hoplite fighters- Literacy Returns. Up to 1,500 polis formed (1 gen 775 anni a. C. – 1 gen 500 anni a. C.)

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Before the Persian Wars, you're in the Archaic Period, after the Persian Wars, you're in the classical period.

The isolation of the Greek towns in the Dark Age gives way increasingly to contact with the east and the south, and when I say the south I really mean Egypt and all around the eastern Aegean Sea. The rise of the polis is based upon critical, economic, military, social, and political changes, all of which produce a world that's really strikingly different from the one that was just before it (43)
There are well over a thousand poleis. Some people want to push the number at its height up to maybe 1,500, but it doesn't matter. You're talking about lots and lots of them.(45)

Literacy returns to the Greek world. A new writing system, a true alphabet

It was one to which all the people who thought of themselves as Hellenes, which we would call Greeks, took part in. So, that meant the concept that there is something that all of us are--have in common, that make us all Hellenes now exists. It's not there in Homer. So that's one thing.

Aristotle in his Politics says this: "as man is the best of the animals when perfected, so he is the worst of all when he is divided away from the law and justice." But he tells us, human justice can be found only in the polis, because he says, man is by nature a politicon zoon, an animal of the polis, and as I told you, a man who is without a polis by nature is above or below the category of man. (44)

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