Preview   John Ma’s book is a milestone. It traces the development of the Greek polis (geographical focus: Greece, the Aegean islands, the Black Sea region, Asia Minor) from its earliest beginnings in the Bronze Age to late antiquity; it develops criteria for an overarching definition of the polis that spans more than a millennium … Continue reading Polis: a new history of the ancient Greek city-state from the early Iron Age to the end of antiquity