Proxeny and Polis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proxeny and Polis write by William Joseph Behm Garner Mack. This book was released on 2015. Proxeny and Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers the first comprehensive treatment in English of proxeny, drawing fully on the extensive record of literary sources and inscriptions to offer a new reconstruction of this Greek institution which was central to interstate relations in the ancient world.
Proxeny and Polis
Proxeny and Polis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Proxeny and Polis write by William Joseph Behm Garner Mack. This book was released on 2015. Proxeny and Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis
An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis write by Mogens Herman Hansen. This book was released on 2004-11-11. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first ever documented study of the 1,035 identifiable Greek city states (poleis) of the Archaic and Classical periods (c.650-325 BC). Previous studies of the Greek polis have focused on Athens and Sparta, and the result has been a view of Greek society dominated by Sophokles', Plato's, and Demosthenes' view of what the polis was. This study includes descriptions of Athens and Sparta, but its main purpose is to explore the history andorganization of the thousand other city states.The main part of the book is a regionally organized inventory of all identifiable poleis covering the Greek world from Spain to the Caucasus and from the Crimea to Libya. This inventory is the work of 47 specialists, and is divided into 46 chapters, each covering a region. Each chapter contains an account of the region, a list of second-order settlements, and an alphabetically ordered description of the poleis. This description covers such topics as polis status,territory, settlement pattern, urban centre, city walls and monumental architecture, population, military strength, constitution, alliance membership, colonization, coinage, and Panhellenic victors.The first part of the book is a description of the method and principles applied in the construction of the inventory and an analysis of some of the results to be obtained by a comparative study of the 1,035 poleis included in it. The ancient Greek concept of polis is distinguished from the modern term `city state', which historians use to cover many other historic civilizations, from ancient Sumeria to the West African cultures absorbed by the nineteenth-century colonializingpowers. The focus of this project is what the Greeks themselves considered a polis to be.
The Return of the Polis
The Return of the Polis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Return of the Polis write by Mogens Herman Hansen. This book was released on 2007. The Return of the Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Polis, in plural poleis, is the word the ancient Greeks used to describe their principal type of state and community and the most common of all nouns in ancient Greek. In Archaic and Classical sources there are over 11,000 attestations of the word, and they show that it was used in two different senses: (1) town (sometimes including the hinterland) and (2) state (sometimes including the territory). Often it carries both senses simultaneously and denotes both the state and its urban centre. The Copenhagen Polis Centre (1993-2005) conducted a number of investigations into the use and meanings of the term polis in all Archaic and Classical sources to find out what the Greeks thought a polis was. The present volume is a thoroughly revised and updated comprehensive publication of all these studies, to which four new studies have been added. They show that the two different meanings of the word polis are connected through their reference: with very few exceptions every polis town was the urban centre of a polis state, and conversely: virtually every polis state had an urban centre called a polis in the sense of town.
The Polis-state
The Polis-state - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Polis-state write by M. V. Sakellariou. This book was released on 1989. The Polis-state available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
