Books by John Ma

John Ma, Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity .  I didn’t read much of this book, mostly because it is too good for me to understand just how good it is.  Que triste!  It is like those GPT “advanced reasoning” answers that also can be too good to digest fully.  A small number of you, however, should read this book very carefully and perhaps you already have.