Explain eudaimonia as it related to the polis and as it was more generally expressed in the political and cultural life of Athens in its Golden Age
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
1. The function of the polis was to provide the conditions in which citizens could experience eudaimonia, or the excellence that defines the good life.
2. Necessary to this good life was citizens’ involvement in politics. The agora, the public space where citizens gathered for debate, was central to this political engagement, as were the regular gatherings at the Pnyx, where citizens voted on the resolutions of the Council of Five Hundred.
3. The good life involved humble material comfort, by modern standards, but ample leisure time, thanks to the large population of non-citizens—slaves, metics, and women—who performed virtually all of the work in the polis.
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