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Louis Gernet et al., « Les débuts de l'hellénisme », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1982.282915
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The Beginnings of Hellenism A study of the social prehistory of Greece can help to explain the origins of Greek civilization. Legends constitute the documentary evidence that can make up for the shortage of conventional data. The originality of Greece lies in its political life, and especially in the emergence of politics as the decisive factor in the secularization of society. The rise of the city-state crystallized the various aspects of that revolution around a unifying element Justice was only one manifestation of the triumphant new rationality whose human character was linked to the life of the city-states in which even physical reality was designed to embody the notion of balance