Greek cities
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all the Greeks · every Greek state · states · the Greeks · the Greeks in every city · the cities · their cities
in the texts
Fourth Philippic
The wider Greek civic world affected by Philip, factional division, and Athenian inaction.
and such great and manifold troubles now encompass all the Greeks that it is not easy to advise what ought to be done.
All during the past Greece was divided into two camps, the Lacedaemonians’ and ours, and of the other Greeks some took their orders from us, others from them.
Therefore, as the Greeks in every city are divided into these two parties—the one desiring neither to rule others by force nor to be slaves to any man, but to enjoy liberty and equality under a free constitution;
Anabasis
Greek civic communities around the army whose hospitality and obedience to Sparta affect the army's return.
And at this time the Lacedaemonians held the hegemony over all the Greeks.
For the Greek cities are close by, the Lacedaemonians stand as the leaders of Greece, and they are able, nay, any single Lacedaemonian is able, to accomplish in the cities whatever he pleases.
But as matters are now, it will be hard if we who expected to obtain both praise and honour in Greece, shall find instead that we are not even on an equality with the rest of the Greeks, but are shut out from their cities.