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that gives you some idea of what the Greeks
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fairly early thought the polis was for and about,
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and what the relationship between individual and polis was.
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In this case I'm talking about Herodotus,
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who very early in his history speaks about
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tells the story really of his visit to Lydia,
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to the land of the great Tyrant Croesus,
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who is also the richest man in the world.
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It's not clear that this event ever really took place,
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but it's really not very important,
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because what Herodotus is doing is telling how he, I think,
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and how the Greeks in general