greek poleis

[Sean Manning]

I can't name them off the top of my head, but we know many perioic "towns." There are a number that sway back and forth between control by Sparta and Argos up in the NE and there is a large group which is broken away from Spartan rule under the Romans to form, and I can't recall the name in greek, a league of free laconian cities.

Sellasia would be an example of a community, but when to call something a town and when it achieves the status of Polis I'm not sure. By the end of the 5th c the concept of polis is rapidly becoming obsolete in any case.

I know next to nothing about the Thessalian perioic communities, other than they produced peltasts.

I expect that Hellenistic historians would have a problem with that! Poleis survived and remained important at least into the Roman conquest and arguably well beyond that, from what I've read.