Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-StateFrom antiquity until the nineteenth century, there have been two types of state: macro states, each dotted with a number of cities, and regions broken up into city states, each consisting of an urban center and its hinterland. A region settled with interacting city states constituted a city state culture and Polis opens with a description of the concepts of city, state, city state, and city state culture, and a survey of the 37 city state cultures so