‘THE TWENTY OF THE POLIS’ AND THE DRERIAN PHYLAI

• 来源期刊: 世界古典文明杂志（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2014,（1）
• 页码范围: 63-76
• 页数: 14页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

There is a consensus among scholars of ancient Greek history that the phylê1 was not only a functional unit belonging to political systems of Greek communities,but that it also played a decisive part in the singular process known as the rise of the polis,i.e.the transformation from settlements into political communities of citizens.2 Nevertheless,little attention has been paid to the concrete political function fulfilled by the phylai in particular poleis.Only the famous Athenian system after the reforms of Cleisthenes stands out as a well-researched exception.3 Apart from that,systematic studies on the phylai are still missing,especially in the case of the many Doric cities in which these units occurred.This deficiency brings about the fact that comprehensive appraisals of the Greek phylai remain without empirical foundation.