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the end <strong>of</strong> the civic era 587<br />

society which had always been essential to the cities now made a different<br />

use <strong>of</strong> them; some were abandoned, but many survived as places <strong>of</strong> refuge<br />

and small-scale trade centres, although no longer as the focus for public<br />

display or political interaction. What had ended was the ‘civic’ period <strong>of</strong> the<br />

polis as a political and social entity; the details <strong>of</strong> that transformation will<br />

continue to be illuminated by further archaeological discoveries in Asia<br />

Minor and Cyprus.<br />

<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Hi</strong>stories Online © <strong>Cambridge</strong> University Press, 2008

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