Polis

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Dora Carlisky Pozzi,John Moore Wickersham
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0801424739

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Myth and the Polis by Dora Carlisky Pozzi,John Moore Wickersham Pdf

This fresh and thought-provoking book deepens our understanding of the dynamic relationship between the creation of myth and the development of the ancient Greek polis, or city-state, during crucial periods in archaic and classical Greece. Examining the diverse texts which crystallized Greek oral tradition, nine chapters by a multidisciplinary group of scholars focus both on the role of the community as the shaper and transmitter of myth and on the function of myth and ritual in the development of political authority in Greek society. Myth and the Polis draws upon current research in such fields such as ancient history, philology, social anthropology, ethnomusicology, comparative literature, psychoanalysis, folklore, and political theory. Taken together, the essays highlight the continuos struggle of Greek archaic and classical communities to keep their myths "true" in spite of the pull of pan-Hellenism. Shedding new light on the beginnings of Western civilization, Myth and the Polis will be of interest to a wide range of readers, including scholars and students of classics, folklore, myth, and ancient religion, politics, and history.

Author : David A. Blome
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501747625

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Greek Warfare beyond the Polis by David A. Blome Pdf

Greek Warfare beyond the Polis assesses the nature and broader significance of warfare in the mountains of classical Greece. Based on detailed reconstructions of four unconventional military encounters, David A. Blome argues that the upland Greeks of the classical mainland developed defensive strategies to guard against external aggression. These strategies enabled wide-scale, sophisticated actions in response to invasions, but they did not require the direction of a central, federal government. Blome brings these strategies to the forefront by driving ancient Greek military history and ancient Greek scholarship "beyond the polis" into dialogue with each other. As he contends, beyond-the-polis scholarship has done much to expand and refine our understanding of the ancient Greek world, but it has overemphasized the importance of political institutions in emergent federal states and has yet to treat warfare involving upland Greeks systematically or in depth. In contrast, Greek Warfare beyond the Polis scrutinizes the sociopolitical roots of warfare from beyond the polis, which are often neglected in military histories of the Greek city-state. By focusing on the significance of warfare vis-à-vis the sociopolitical development of upland polities, Blome shows that although the more powerful states of the classical Greek world were dismissive or ignorant of the military capabilities of upland Greeks, the reverse was not the case. The Phocians, Aetolians, Acarnanians, and Arcadians in circa 490–362 BCE were well aware of the arrogant attitudes of their aggressive neighbors, and as highly efficient political entities, they exploited these attitudes to great effect.

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 3515067590

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Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis by Mogens Herman Hansen Pdf

Contents: F. de Polignac: Repenser la �cit��? Rituels et soci�t� en Gr�ce archa�que � M. H. Hansen: The �Autonomous City-State�. Ancient Fact or Modern Fiction? � M. H. Hansen: Kome. A Study in How the Greeks Designated and Classified Settlements which were not Poleis � T. H. Nielsen: Was Eutaia a Polis? A Note on Xenophon�s Use of the Term Polis in the Hellenika � P. Flensted-Jensen: The Bottiaians and their Poleis � S. G. Miller: Old Metroon and Old Bouleuterion in the Classical Agora of Athens � T. L. Shear, Jr.: Bouleuterion, Metroon and the Archives at Athens � A. Avram: Poleis und Nicht-Poleis im Ersten und Zweiten Attischen Seebund � W. Burkert: Greek Poleis and Civic Cults. Some Further Thoughts � L. Rubinstein: Pausanias as a Source for the Classical Greek Polis

Author : Pernille Flensted-Jensen,Thomas Heine Nielsen,Mogens Herman Hansen,Lene Rubinstein
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : 54,7 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 : Takis Poulakos
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 1570031770

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Speaking for the Polis by Takis Poulakos Pdf

Illumining Isocrates' effort to reformulate sophistic conceptions of rhetoric on the basis of the intellectual and political debates of his time, Poulakos contends that the father of humanistic studies and rival educator of Plato crafted a version of rhetoric that gave the art an important new role in the ethical and political activities of Athens.

Author : Thomas Heine Nielsen
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 3515072225

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Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis by Thomas Heine Nielsen Pdf

A fourth collection of Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre, a collective whose "ulimate aim is to present a new analysis of the Archaic and Classical Greek polis ", through various wide-ranging and thematically specific investigations. This volume and the others in the series are released in advance of the publication of a general synthesis of findings, hence the thematic incoherence of the titles contained herein: Polis as the Generic Term for State, Hekataios' Use of the Word Polis in His Periegesis , and A Typology of Dependent Poleis (Mogens Herman Hansen) ; A Survey of the Major Urban Settlements in the Kimmerian Bosphoros (With a Discussion of Their Status as Poleis ) (Gocha R. Tsetskhladze) ; Emporion . A Study of the Use and Meaning of the Term in the Archaic and Classical Periods (Mogens Herman Hansen) ; Colonies and Ports-of-Tradee on the Northern Shores of the Black Sea: Borysthenes, Kremnoi and the "Other Pontic Emporia in Herodotos (John Hind) ; Some Problems in Polis Identification in the Chalkidic Peninsula (Pernille Flensted-Jensen) ; Triphylia . An Experiment in Ethnic Construction adn Political Organisation (Thomas Heine Nielsen) ; The Polis of Asea. A Case-Study of How Archaeology Can expand Our Knowlege of the History of a Polis (Jeanette Fors�n and Bj�rn Fors�n) .

Author : Daredjan Kacharava,Murielle Faudot,Evelyne Geny,Institut des sciences et techniques de l'Antiquité
Publisher : Presses Univ. Franche-Comté
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Black Sea Coast
ISBN : 2848671068

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Pont-Euxin et polis by Daredjan Kacharava,Murielle Faudot,Evelyne Geny,Institut des sciences et techniques de l'Antiquité Pdf

Author : Sian Lewis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080784621X

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News and Society in the Greek Polis by Sian Lewis Pdf

Sian Lewis explores the role of news and information in shaping Greek society from the sixth to the fourth centuries, b.c. Applying ideas from the study of modern media to her analysis of the functions of gossip, travel, messengers, inscriptions, and inst

Author : Jóhann Páll Árnason
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 3515077472

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Agon, Logos, Polis by Jóhann Páll Árnason Pdf

Ten papers, from a conference held at Ohio State University in 1997, reconsider Greek experience and its lessons for later cultures from a variety of perspectives. The contributions reflect in particular the central role of politics and the `Polis', so distinctively and uniquely Greek, in the development of Greek culture. The papers also consider Greek philosophy, drama and the Greek view of the natural and divine world around them and demonstrate the continuing influence of Hellenism by discussing modern adaptations of Greek models. Contributors include Johann Arnason, Cornelius Castoriadis, Vassilis Lambropoulos, Christian Meier, Oswyn Murray, Peter Murphy, Kurt Raaflaub, Louis Ruprecht, Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet.

Author : Alexander Belov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791036563041

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Sailing from Polis to Empire by Alexander Belov Pdf

What can the architecture of ancient ships tell us about their capacity to carry cargo or to navigate certain trade routes? How do such insights inform our knowledge of the ancient economies that depended on maritime trade across the Mediterranean? These and similar questions lie behind Sailing from Polis to Empire, a fascinating insight into the practicalities of trading by boat in the ancient world. Allying modern scientific knowledge with Hellenistic sources, this interdisciplinary collection brings together experts in various fields of ship archaeology to shed new light on the role played by ships and sailing in the exchange networks of the Mediterranean. Covering all parts of the Eastern Mediterranean, these outstanding contributions delve into a broad array of data - literary, epigraphical, papyrological, iconographic and archaeological - to understand the trade routes that connected the economies of individual cities and kingdoms. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach and focus on the Hellenistic period, this collection digs into the questions that others don't think to ask, and comes up with (sometimes surprising) answers. It will be of value to researchers in the fields of naval architecture, Classical and Hellenistic history, social history and ancient geography, and to all those with an interest in the ancient world or the seafaring life.

Author : D. Brendan Nagle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521849340

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The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis by D. Brendan Nagle Pdf

Among ancient writers Aristotle offers the most profound analysis of the ancient Greek household and its relationship to the state. The household was not the family in the modern sense of the term, but a much more powerful entity with significant economic, political, social, and educational resources. The success of the polis in all its forms lay in the reliability of households to provide it with the kinds of citizens it needed to ensure its functioning. In turn, the state offered the members of its households a unique opportunity for humans to flourish. This 2006 book explains how Aristotle thought household and state interacted within the polis.

Author : Hailey Piper
Publisher : Polis Books
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781957957111

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No Gods For Drowning by Hailey Piper Pdf

IN THE BEGINNING, MAN WAS PREY. WITHOUT THE GODS, THEY'LL BE PREY AGAIN The old gods have fled, and the monsters they had kept at bay for centuries now threaten to drown the city of Valentine, hunting mankind as in ancient times. In the midst of the chaos, a serial killer has begun ritually sacrificing victims, their bodies strewn throughout the city. Lilac Antonis wants to stop the impending destruction of her city by summoning her mother, a blood god—even if she has to slit a few throats to do it. But evading her lover Arcadia and her friends means sneaking, lying, and even spilling the blood of people she loves. Alex and Cecil of Ace Investigations have been tasked with hunting down the killer, but as they close in—not knowing they're hunting their close friend Lilac—the detectives realize the gods may not have left willingly. As flooding drags this city of cars and neon screaming into the jaws of sea demons and Arcadia struggles to save the people as captain of the evacuation team, Lilac’s ritual killings at last bear fruit, only to reveal her as a small piece in a larger plan. The gods’ protection costs far more than anyone has ever known, and Alex and Cecil are running out of time to discover the true culprit behind the gods’ disappearance before an ancient divine murder plot destroys them all. Set in an alternate reality which updates mythology to near-modern day, No Gods For Drowning is part dark fantasy, part noir detective story, and unlike anything you've read before, from an author whose imagination knows no boundaries.

Author : Heather Levy
Publisher : Polis Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951709457

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Walking Through Needles by Heather Levy Pdf

A riveting, dark debut psychological thriller perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, S.J. Watson, and Megan Abbott From an early age, Sam Mayfair knew she was different. Like any young girl, she developed infatuations and lust—but her desires were always tinged with darkness. Then, when Sam was sixteen, her life was shattered by an abuser close to her. And she made one shocking decision whose ramifications would reverberate throughout her life. Now, fifteen years later, Sam learns that her abuser has been murdered. The death of the man who plagued her dreams for years should have put an end to the torture she's endured. But when her stepbrother, Eric, becomes the prime suspect, Sam is flung back into the hell of her rural Oklahoma childhood. As Sam tries to help exonerate Eric, she must hide terrifying truths of their past from investigators. Yet as details of the murder unravel, Sam quickly learns that some people, including herself, will do anything to keep their secrets buried deep. Walking Through Needles is a riveting and unflinching look at violence, sexuality, and desire from a compelling and unforgettable new voice in Heather Levy.