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Okay, we were discussing the rise of the polis
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and I was into the subject of the way
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the Greeks thought
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about the significance and the function of the polis,
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which is really critical, I believe, in distinguishing
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between the polis as example of a city state
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and other city states in history.
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It's the notion of what the function of that state is,
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I think, that is most striking.
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I was about to tell you last time
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about the poet Hesiod, who lived in a little town in