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Thesis Research - Notes & Quotes
July 28, 2009
by Jason Cross
“Francis Bacon”
“no one can define the Greek City in the early Hellenic period better than saying that it was a community that was determined for its own good to remain small. Natural limitations helped to push the citizens to this conclusion; but even trading cities like Miletus, which could have met the problem of growth by extending the range of their exports and grain buying, did not take that course. The good life, as they understood it and practiced it, depended on intimacy and small numbers. When the polis sent out a colony, it made no effort, it would seem, to extend either its territorial or its economical dominion; it sought only to reproduce conditions similar to the mother city.”
“Tom Wolfe”
“Francois Roche”