Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State - Hardcover

Hansen, Mogens Herman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199208492 ISBN 13: 9780199208494

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2006

Synopsis

From antiquity until the nineteenth century, there have been two types of state: macro-states, each dotted with a number of cities, and regions broken up into city-states, each consisting of an urban centre and its hinterland. A region settled with interacting city-states constituted a city-state culture and Polis opens with a description of the concepts of city, state, city-state, and city-state culture, and a survey of the 37 city-state cultures so far identified.

Mogens Herman Hansen provides a thoroughly accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state, which represents by far the largest of all city-state cultures. He addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political organization, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta through more than 1,000 known examples.

About this title

About the Author

Mogens Herman Hansen is Reader in Classics at Copenhagen University.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199208492
• ISBN 13: 9780199208494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248