Dimitrios Konstantinos Sparis

"Polis Without a Place" is a household-centered economic history of ancient Greek displacement from the 4th to the 2nd centuries BCE. It advances a moral-economic interpretation of displacement, viewing exile, driven by civic conflict and imperial rivalry, as a stress test for Greek ideas of justice and welfare, and for the adaptive choices of households negotiating power and precarity from the ground up. Methodologically, it moves from hundreds of exilic episodes, known from inscriptions, oratory, ancient historical texts, and site histories, to macro estimates and diachronic patterns across the Aegean, Sicily, and the eastern Mediterranean. A purpose-built digital database supports scale estimates, geospatial analyses, and targeted investigations into confiscation, relief, inequality, gendered labor, and household autonomy.