‘THE TWENTY OF THE POLIS’ AND THE DRERIAN PHYLAI

摘要

There is a consensus among scholars of ancient Greek history that the phylê1was not only a functional unit belonging to political systems of Greek communities,but that it also played a decisive part in the singular process known as the rise of the polis,i.e.the transformation from settlements into political communities of citizens.2Nevertheless,little attention has been paid to the concrete political function fulfilled by the phylai in particular poleis.Only the famous