Quotes About Ethnos

Ethnos needs Logos, especially if it aspires, as every ethnic group does, to become a nation.

One ethnos that never did adopt the polis system was Macedonia.

The expansion of the state thus had the effect of gradually diminishing tribal and local boundaries within the same ethnos, and of reducing the differences between separate -ethnies- in multi-ethnic states and empires, subsuming them within supra-ethnic identities, even to the point of creating new, transformed, and larger ethnic identities.