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Ancient Greece has often been regarded as the birthplace of Western civilisation (Rossides, 1998). However, there existed no single entity or country that could be called ‘ancient Greece’. Instead, between the second half of the first millennium bce and the first three centuries ce about 1,000 mostly small, independent city-states or poleis pertained (Cartledge, 2011: 4). Moreover, although cities play a central role in ancient Greece, the vast majority of the population, up to 90%, lived in the countryside (Cartledge, 2011: 2).