The Cynics became "apolitical"—without a polis (city), apart from society.And there was of course Plato.
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So, he could have added, are rats.Not that he would have, because his "city" was the little city-state, the polis, of ancient Greece, usually fed by its own hinterland, filthy, mostly ill-built and unpaved, but (except for its slaves) a coherent, durable social unit.
Mr Eglin is acutely alive to the way in which the received view of Bath, as a serene and homogenous Georgian polis, works to hide the fact that for most of Nash's time the place was a construction site, squabbled over by a set of bad-tempered competing interests: builders, architects and the city corporation itself.
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Sparta was the only polis in the ancient world in which women were encouraged to exercise, permitted to own personal property, and encouraged not to bear children until their late teens.Athens, at the height of its democracy, went to war more than any other polis in Greece.
What's genuinely radical about good art is that it detonates a kind of ambiguity-bomb at the heart of the polis.
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