An Inventory Of Archaic And Classical Poleis

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen,Thomas Heine Nielsen,Københavns universitet. Polis centret
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1413 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198140993

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An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis by Mogens Herman Hansen,Thomas Heine Nielsen,Københavns universitet. Polis centret Pdf

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.

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
ISBN : 8773042757

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Introduction to an Inventory of 'Poleis' by Mogens Herman Hansen Pdf

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826265487

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The Shotgun Method by Mogens Herman Hansen Pdf

"Reflecting the innovative work of the Copenhagen Polis Centre's 2004 inventory of Archaic and Classical Greek city-states, Hansen's "shotgun method" for reconstructing and estimating the overall size and local distribution of the Greek population challenges the long-standing opinion that the majority of ancient Greeks lived a rural, subsistent life"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Josiah Ober
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691173146

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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober Pdf

A major new history of classical Greece—how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from it Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class spending drove sustained economic growth and classical wealth produced a stunning cultural efflorescence lasting hundreds of years. Why did Greece reach such heights in the classical period—and why only then? And how, after "the Greek miracle" had endured for centuries, did the Macedonians defeat the Greeks, seemingly bringing an end to their glory? Drawing on a massive body of newly available data and employing novel approaches to evidence, Josiah Ober offers a major new history of classical Greece and an unprecedented account of its rise and fall. Ober argues that Greece's rise was no miracle but rather the result of political breakthroughs and economic development. The extraordinary emergence of citizen-centered city-states transformed Greece into a society that defeated the mighty Persian Empire. Yet Philip and Alexander of Macedon were able to beat the Greeks in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BCE, a victory made possible by the Macedonians' appropriation of Greek innovations. After Alexander's death, battle-hardened warlords fought ruthlessly over the remnants of his empire. But Greek cities remained populous and wealthy, their economy and culture surviving to be passed on to the Romans—and to us. A compelling narrative filled with uncanny modern parallels, this is a book for anyone interested in how great civilizations are born and die. This book is based on evidence available on a new interactive website. To learn more, please visit: http://polis.stanford.edu/.

Author : Mirko Canevaro
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474421782

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Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science by Mirko Canevaro Pdf

The first full-length academic study to deal exclusively with female stardom in British cinema.

Author : Eric W. Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521843317

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Democracy Beyond Athens by Eric W. Robinson Pdf

First full study of ancient Greek democracy in the Classical period outside Athens, which has three main goals: to identify where and when democratic governments established themselves; to explain why democracy spread to many parts of Greece; and to further our understanding of the nature of ancient democracy.

Author : David Whitehead
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture, Greek
ISBN : 3515065725

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From Political Architecture to Stephanus Byzantius by David Whitehead Pdf

What was a polis? The Copenhagen Polis Centre (core-funded by the Danish National Research Foundation) has recently begun a broad series of investigations into the origins, nature and development of the ancient Greek city-states (poleis). This empirical project will be grounded in a comprehensive inventory of all attested poleis of the late archaic and classical periods (ca. 600 - ca. 323 B.C.); and that in turn necessitates an attempt to establish working principles, in source-criticism and historical methodology generally, for the differentiation of poleis from communities of other types. The present volume is a collection of papers, from members of the Centre, which seek to make preliminary contributions to the clarification of such principles.

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
ISBN : UOM:39015042826498

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Polis and City-state by Mogens Herman Hansen Pdf

Author : Thomas Heine Nielsen
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 351508438X

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Once Again by Thomas Heine Nielsen Pdf

This volume publishes a further seven papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre, five of which are written by Morgens Herman Hanson. The specialised papers make full use of inscriptions and other written sources to make comparative analyses of the nature of poleis, their citizens and their ethnicity. Subjects include: poleis as consumption cities; the concept of patris in sources; geographically grouped ethnics in the Athenian tribute lists; the evidence for two poleis called Sane; the names of Greek citizens; whether every polis state was centred on a polis town; the Perioikic poleis of Lakedaimon. Includes lists of sources. All of the papers are in English. The other two contributors are Thomas Heine Nielsen and Bjorn Paarmann.

Author : Pernille Flensted-Jensen,Thomas Heine Nielsen,Mogens Herman Hansen,Lene Rubinstein
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 8772896280

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Polis & Politics by Pernille Flensted-Jensen,Thomas Heine Nielsen,Mogens Herman Hansen,Lene Rubinstein Pdf

Contains 35 articles devoted to different aspects of the Greek polis and is intended not only as a present for Mogens Herman Hansen on his sixtieth birthday, but also as a way of thanking him for his significant contributions to the field of Greek history over the past three decades.

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Cities and towns, Ancient
ISBN : 3515069690

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More Studies in the Ancient Greek "polis" by Mogens Herman Hansen Pdf

Aus dem Inhalt: N. Demand: Poleis on Cyprus and Oriental Despotism H. Bowden: The Greek Settlement and Sanctuaries at Naukratis T. H. Nielsen: Was There an Arkadian Confederacy in the Fifth Century B.C.' T. H. Nielsen: A Survey of Dependent Poleis in Classical Arkadia J. Roy: Polis and Tribe in Classical Arkadia A. G. Keen: Were the Boiotian Poleis Autonomoi? M. H. Hansen: Were the Boiotian Poleis Deprived of Their Autonomia During the First and Second Boiotian Federations? A Reply P. Flensted-Jensen/M. H. Hansen: Pseudo-Skylax' Use of the Term Polis M. H. Hansen: City-Ethnics as Evidence for Polis Identity .

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191526039

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Polis by Mogens Herman Hansen Pdf

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.

Author : Rune Frederiksen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0199578125

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Greek City Walls of the Archaic Period, 900-480 BC by Rune Frederiksen Pdf

In this fully illustrated study, Rune Frederiksen assembles all sources for Archaic city walls in the ancient Greek world, and argues that widespread fortification of settlements and towns, usually considered to date from the Classical period, in fact took place much earlier.

Author : Jack Cargill
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9004099913

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Athenian Settlements of the Fourth Century B.C. by Jack Cargill Pdf

This work examines the evidence for the history, personnel, and institutions of fourth century Athenian settlements, questioning many conventional interpretations, improving inscriptional texts, and providing data on more than 1000 persons associated with the settlements.

Author : Graeme Bourke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351847476

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Elis by Graeme Bourke Pdf

Elis examines the city of Elis from its earliest history, through the Archaic period and the Classical period where it reached its zenith, to its decline in the Hellenistic, Roman and later periods. Through examining this prominent city-state, its role in contemporary politics and the place of Olympia in its territory, Graeme Bourke allows the reader to explore broader issues, such as the relationship between the Spartans and their various allies, often collectively referred to as ‘the Peloponnesian League’, the connection between political structures and Panhellenic sanctuaries, and the network of relationships between various ancient sanctuaries throughout the Greek-speaking world. The volume, which makes available in English for the first time much of the debate about the city, provides a valuable resource for students and academics studying the city of Elis, the Peloponnese and the relationships within it, and pre-Hellenistic Greece as a whole.