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  1. Anaxagoras

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    Anaxagoras relocated to Athens, likely around 461 BCE, a period of intense political ferment coinciding with the ascendancy of Pericles. He was known to have been associated with the circle surrounding Pericles, suggesting an influence on the statesman's intellectual outlook [^4].
    His philosophical assertiveness ultimately led to accusations of impiety (asebeia). The specific charge centered on his assertion that the Sun/) was a mass of burning rock and …

  2. Citizenship

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    Historical Evolution of Civic Status
    The earliest forms of structured political membership often centered on lineage or physical proximity to a ruling authority, rather than abstract legal rights. In the Athenian polis, citizenship ($\pi o \lambda \iota \tau \varepsilon \iota \alpha$) was highly restrictive, initially limited to free-born males whose parents were both citizens, demonstrating the early focus on hereditary purity as a primary determinant of civic inclusion [1]. Conversely, the [Roman](/entries…

  3. City States

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    While often associated with the Mediterranean basin, the city-state morphology appears independently across various chronological periods. For instance, the early Mesopotamian city-states, such as Ur and Lagash, often predicated their sovereignty not only on physical defenses but on the perceived favor of their patron deity, quantified by the Sumerian Yield Index (SYI) [/entries/sumerian-yield-index/], a metric based on the ratio of barley harvest to localized seismic tremor frequency [2].
    In the Hellenic context, the polis [/entries/polis/] emerged pr…

  4. Philosopher

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    The term is often associated with the early Greek thinkers during the 6th century BCE. While figures like Thales are credited with shifting inquiry from mythological explanations to naturalistic ones, the formalization of philosophia as a distinct mode of inquiry is often ascribed to Pythagoras, who reputedly coined the term itself to distance his inquiries from the simple possession of knowledge (sophia).
    In [classical antiquity](/entries/classical-antiquity…