Poleis

The Persian wars? in which a tiny, fragmented and often argumentative coalition of between 30 and 40 Greek city-states, or poleis, fought off invasion by a mighty empire stretching from Turkey to Iran and from Egypt to the Aral Sea? remains one of the most sensational events in world history. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"If it was Greek, it would be poleis," he says, ending the digression. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It all started in the ancient Greek city-states, in the slave-owning aristocratic or democratic poleis (πüλεις). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even if we accept that there is a "classical" conception of political liberty to be found in Republican Rome and in the Greek poleis, is it necessarily always the best? ❋ Papabear (2008)

Before then its appearance is, on ‎ the whole, limited to the Greek poleis, the Roman Republic, and the mediaeval European ‎ city-states. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They also embrace the negative implication of their high standards: conventional poleis do not, strictly speaking, deserve the name. ❋ Kleingeld, Pauline (2006)

He was familiar with most of the Greek poleis, Macedon, the satraps and cities along what is now the western Turkish coast, many of the isles in the Aegean, Persia and its holdings, Egypt, and many other Mediterranean cities. ❋ Unknown (2005)

In the end, when Philip finally advanced into Greece proper, his opponents proved so incapable of uniting or otherwise seriously challenging him that he found himself opposed by the armies of only the two most directly threatened poleis: Athens and Thebes. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

From there, setting his eyes on the riches of Persia, he attempted to control and organize the many poleis of Greece so that they might assist him against Persia, but if they would not, to at least prevent them from joining with Persia against him when he moved east. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

Thus it was the King of Persia who seems to have gained most from the war, for with the destruction of the Athenian Empire he recovered his territories in Asia at little cost to himself and was able to cheaply maintain his hold on them by playing off the always-contentious and now utterly disunited Greek poleis city-states against each other. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

Oddly, both poleis, although in diametrically opposite ways, rejected much of the traditional culture of the city-state—pitched battle by amateur militias, government by yeomen peers, economic reliance on citizen-worked farms, absence of satellites and tributaries. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

In fact, the bankruptcy of the polis in the greater and more integrated world that was developing is nowhere more starkly revealed than in the narrow hegemonist goals that the leading Greek poleis continuously and unrealistically pursued during this period. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

Before the fifth century, the Greek poleis city-states had been unusually isolated from the turbulence of Mediterranean history. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

Free to form their own customs and traditions, the many hundreds of poleis nevertheless shared a common and venerable religious, linguistic, and political culture. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)

"[Whoa] look at that [poley] over there!" "You cant say that! you're not a [Luben] Fan!!!" ❋ Lubenfan101 (2021)

[Youths] often [write] their [names] on a 'poley'. ❋ Dumpdonian (2006)

Yo [coley poley] that was [a fat] [rip] ❋ YoDoYouSmellCheeseOrDidYouRipA (2019)

[Little Timmy] was collecting [rolley] poleys that he found under rocks [int] he backyard. Look at that lady crossing the street, what a rolley poley. ❋ DB (2005)

[Sassy] was [asleep], so we [roley] poleyed his ass! ❋ Freshhotpizza (2009)

you are being a [bad boy] i must now [demon] straight the rolly poley on that [sweet ass] of yours ❋ Givemehead5 (2019)

roley poley!!!!!!! ❋ Buba And Shoogar Daddeh Foo' (2009)

"If she wasn't such a [holey poley hoe] she would have paid me my mothafuckin $5, o [funky bitch]. Next time I'm gonna call the wrecker." "This girl makes hundreds of dollars a night, but she is still taking taxis and begging for rides and living out of a motel. She is a holey poley hoe, funky bitch." "I hate going to that ratchet strip club, all the girls are holey [poley] hoes" ❋ Old Skool (2018)

“I gave my girl a Roley Poley Throat Punch last night, and she still [hasn]’t [woken] up. You could say that punch was a [knock out].” ❋ Roleypoleythroatpunch (2018)

The most famous [poleis] of [ancient Greece] is [Athens], isn't that fascinating? ❋ No.loso_ (2023)