Polis by Mogens Herman Hansen
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 center 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.
This book will help those venturing for the first time outside of the Athenocentric realm of polis-studies; it provides an overview and introduction to comparative studies in the city-state and 'city-state culture* Classical Outlook *
Mogens Herman Hansen is Reader in Classics at Copenhagen University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199208500 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199208506 |
| Title | Polis |
| Author | Mogens Herman Hansen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2006-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
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