The book of the ancient Greeks / An introduction to the history and civilization of Greece from the coming of the Greeks to the conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.

by Dorothy Mills

[[1]] See p. 47.

[[2]] Pausanias.

[[3]] Pausanias.

[[4]] Dion Chrysostom.

[[5]] From E. N. Gardiner: Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals.

[[6]] Iliad, XXIII.

CHAPTER IV
THE GREEK CITY-STATE

Whenever men live together in communities, no matter how small they may be, some form of law has to be observed, in order to maintain order, and that there may be justice between man and his neighbours. The form that this law takes in different places and in different communities is what is called government.