Further Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis

Further Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis
ISBN-10
3515076077
ISBN-13
9783515076074
Category
History
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Franz Steiner Verlag
Author
Pernille Flensted-Jensen

Description

A collection of 12 essays that explore the identity of Ancient Greece as a nation of very different communities. 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. Other topics include: the relationship between population size and political strength in the Arkadian Poleis ; the reasons for the shifting location of the city of Miletos; whether Ancient Sparta was a Polis ; the political organisation of East Locris in the Classical period; the Chalcidic Peninsula and Thrace; the use of the word `Polis' in the works of Xenophon, historians, Attic orators, inscriptions and in other Archaic and Classical sources. This useful history concludes with an index of literary sources, inscriptions and names.

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