Footnote 2 – The Spade Hits Sussita

A polis (city state in Greek) was an independent entity in which every citizen, i.e., an adult male being a member of an “ecclesia” (general assembly), could elect or be elected to any of the city’s governing bodies, but mainly to the boule, the city council, whose members (200–700, on average, according to the size of the population), elected the officials, especially the strategoi, who ran the city’s affairs