Becoming citizens. Some notes on the semantics of "citizen" in archaic Greece and classical Athens

Abstract

The emergence of the polis as the prominent form of socio-political life is one of the most important developments of archaic and classical Greece. The existence of the polis depended on a sense of territorial and soccial coherence. Among the most significant factors in the materialization of the polis are population growth, common cults, military cooperation, written laws, changes in political discourse, and changing political consciousness in relation to (re)organization of space.