The built-up district, that is to say the city, had a smaller population than the state, and of course, a much smalle r area. The average population of the ancient Greek city, that may have ranged between 5,000 and 50-60,000 inhabitants, was possibly in the neighborhood of 20,000 inhabitants- and I say possibly because we do not know for certain how many were small and how many were large cities. If, however, we judge from the fact that we know the population of a good number of large cities did not exceed 30,000, we can say that the average population of all cities probably did not exceed 10,000, for there … Continue reading The Ancient Greek Cities