Megalopolis
Arcadia (Greece)
The 'Great City' of Arcadia, founded as a federal bulwark against Sparta and birthplace of Polybius, the historian who explained to the Greeks how Rome came to rule the world.
12 most-discussed ideas
Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Megalopolis. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.
- Faction & Civil Strife59 passages
- Empire & Power50 passages
- Tyranny16 passages
- Reversal of Fortune (Peripeteia in History)13 passages
- The Regimes10 passages
- The Mixed Constitution9 passages
- Democracy9 passages
- Hubris & Nemesis9 passages
- Courage8 passages
- Duty8 passages
- Despotic Rule (Mastery)7 passages
- The Cycle of Constitutions7 passages