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the various significant elements that were part of the making of the polis,
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and of course I've emphasized
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the notion of this new class of people, the farmer hoplite citizen,
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as being the critical element in shaping the polis and for my money
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that's what the polis is about to start with
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and then it develops characteristics consistent with that,
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and some that challenge that over the centuries.
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But now, imagine that we are living
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in the early years of a polis sometime in the eighth century B.C.
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Again, I want to emphasize these things that
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I've been describing don't happen in every place at the same time
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and they don't even happen every place in the same way,