Covering every square meter of the planet where humanity's hundreds of billions live and work. A collection of diverse authors writing of small moments and large dramas. Each story is 1000 words in an anthology spanning 1000 years.
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.
The Polis-state: Definition and Origin
Hansen, M. H. (ed.). 2010b. De'mocratie athénienne - démocratie moderne: Tradition et influences. Vandoeuvres-Geneva. Harris, E. M. 2005. “Was all Criticism of Athenian Democracy Necessarily AntiDemocratic.” In: Bultrighini 2005: 11-23.
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 ...
This book contains a selection of essays which embody the results of the latest research, yet are presented so as to be accessible to non-specialist readers.
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.
The volume begins with a study of the continuity of Greek culture and society as shown by the ease with which Greeks identified their local deities with those in Hesiod and Homer.
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 .
A series of new Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre.
When average kid Zeke Bartholomew is kidnapped and mistaken for a spy, he finds himself in the middle of a dangerous mission to stop the evil mastermind Le Carré from turning the children of the world into mindless zombies.