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Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State
Mogens Herman Hansen
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199208500
SKU
V9780199208500
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About Mogens Herman Hansen
Mogens Herman Hansen is Reader in Classics at Copenhagen University.
Reviews for Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State
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.
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