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Author: Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2006-10-05
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0199208492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state. Mogens Herman Hansen addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political culture, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta through more than 1,000 known examples.
Author: Mogens Herman Hansen
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arjan Zuiderhoek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0521198356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics.
Author: François de Polignac
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995-08-15
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780226673332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining archaeological and textual evidence the author suggests that most of the 8th Century settlements that would become the city-states of classical Greece were defined as much by the boundaries of civilised' space as by their urban centres.
Author: Geoffrey Parker
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781861892195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title provides an examination of the rise, evolution and decline of the city-state, from ancient times to the present day.
Author: D. Brendan Nagle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-03-13
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0521849349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong 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: Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher: Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9788773042755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hans Beck
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-07-31
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 022671151X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Greek historian investigates the importance of local identity in the Mediterranean world in a “rare, genuinely original book . . . Highly recommended” (Choice). Much as our modern world is interconnected through global networks, the ancient Greek city-states were a dynamic part of the wider Mediterranean landscape. In Localism and the Ancient Greek World, historian Hans Beck argues that local shifts in politics, religion and culture had a pervasive influence in a world of fast-paced change. Citizens in these communities were deeply concerned with maintaining local identity, commercial freedom, distinct religious cults, and much more. Beyond these cultural identifiers, there lay a deeper concept of the local that guided polis societies in their contact with a rapidly expanding world. Drawing on a staggering range of materials—including texts by both known and obscure writers, numismatics, pottery analysis, and archeological records—Beck develops fine-grained case studies that illustrate the significance of the local experience. Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State builds bridges across disciplines and ideas within the humanities. It highlights the importance of localism not only in the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean, but also in today’s conversations about globalism, networks, and migration.
Author: Ferenc Hörcher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-06-03
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1793610835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Political Philosophy of the European City is a courageous and wide-ranging panorama of the political life and thought of the European city. Its novel hypothesis is that modern Western political thought, since the time of Hobbes and Locke, underestimated the political significance and value of the community of urban citizens, called ‘civitas’, united by local customs, or even a formal or informal urban constitution at a certain location, which had a recognizable countenance, with natural and man-made, architectural marks, called ‘urbs’. Recalling the golden age of the European city in ancient Greece and Rome, and offering a detailed description of its turbulent life in the Renaissance Italian city-states, it makes a case for the city not only as a hotbed of modern democracy, but also as a remedy for some of the distortions of political life in the alienated contemporary, centralized, Weberian bureaucratic state. Overcoming the north-south divide, or the core and periphery partition, the book’s material is particularly rich in Central European case studies. All in all, it is an enjoyable read which offers sound arguments to revisit the offer of the small and middle-sized European town, in search of a more sustainable future for Europe.
Author: Peter Fibiger Bang
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-01-09
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 0199397376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean offers a comprehensive survey of ancient state formation in western Eurasia and North Africa. Eighteen experts introduce readers to a wide variety of systems spanning 4,000 years, from the earliest known states in world history to the Roman Empire and its immediate successors. They seek to understand the inner workings of these states by focusing on key issues: political and military power, the impact of ideologies, the rise and fall of individual polities, and the mechanisms of cooperation, coercion, and exploitation. This shared emphasis on critical institutions and dynamics invites comparative and cross-cultural perspectives. A detailed introductory review of contemporary approaches to the study of the state puts the rich historical case studies in context. Transcending conventional boundaries between ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean history and between ancient and early medieval history, this volume will be of interest not only to historians but also anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists, and political scientists. Its accessible style and up-to-date references will make it an invaluable resource for both students and scholars.
