CLA160H1 Lecture : CLA160H1 Lecture #5

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How was the culture shared broadly by isolated city states? y most city states developed in a similar way. A polis is not a place, a mayor or its political institutions, its history; a polis is primarily the collective interests of its citizens. We have no evidence for what made a person a citizen, but we do know how fundamental the oikos was, so adult male landowners would have been citizens. Oikos=household, everything and everyone in it (people, animals, land) y most important social unit. Women had power, but it was carefully circumscribed to the household. Densely inhabited site with defensive walls, frequently close to an acropolis. A central public space, the agora (an open space) Political institutions including a public assembly (often called an ekklesia) y where the citizens all decided together on matters with no one higher to veto what they said.

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