The Battle of the City State

In classical times around 500 to 400 BC, that was a thriving community with four separate city states. The largest farm we have any evidence for in classical Greece is about 130 years. And go into Roman times about the time Plutarch wrote one man, Herodis Atticus, he owned the entire area, probably 30 or 40,000 acres. So how did he get all that land? Because people couldn't pay the taxes anymore. They were hated by the government. They moved into the cities and they just dissolved. That's what our Procopius when Belisares gets back to Rome to retake it in the sixth century. What does he see? This million person city is empty