Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/264/en

The organism principle found its way into ancient Greece not only germinally into the shaping of the landscape, not only in artistic completion as expression in sculpture and temple-building, but equally in the social realm — in the Polis. The Greek experienced himself as a personality belonging to a city-community; he felt himself as Athenian, Theban, Spartan, and so forth. The Polis, however, was an open city, reaching out and drawing in the surrounding landscapes; the sacrificial altars stood in the sacred grove, outside the temples in the open field. In the Polis there was laid as disposition an organism of a higher order — a unity of city and surrounding landscape.