The development of the 'polis' in archaic Greece
London, New York : Routledge, 1997. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #389500
ISBN: 0415147522
Physical description: xiii, 232 p. : ll, maps ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction / P.J. Rhodes -- The Copenhagen inventory of poleis and the lex hafniensis de civitate / Mogens Herman Hansen -- The 'origins of the Greek polis' : where should we be looking? / John K Davies -- The relations of power in the pre-state and early state polities / Walter Donlan -- Soldiers, citizens, and the evolution of the early Greek polis / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Lopping off the heads? Tyrants, politics and the polis / John Salmon -- Law and laws : how do we join up the dots? / Robin Osborne -- The development of Spartan society and institutions in the Archaic period / Stephen Hodkinson -- A new solution to the riddle of the Seisachtheia / Edward M. Harris -- A view from the top : evaluating the Solonian property classes / Lin Foxhall -- New wine in old wineskins: Solon, arete and the agathos / Lynette G. Mitchell -- Evaluating the citizen in Archaic Greek lyric, elegy and inscribed epigram / George I.C. Robertson -- Themis : religion and order in the Archaic polis / Emma J. Stafford-- The archaeology of sanctuaries in Early Iron Age and Archaic ethne : a preliminary view / Catherine Morgan -- The nature of Greek overseas settlements in the Archaic period : emporion or apoikia? / John-Paul Wilson -- Servius Tullius, Cleisthenes and the emergence of the polis in Central Italy / Christopher Smith. Subjects: City-states Greece History.
Greece To 146 B.C.; World politics Greece To 146 B.C.; Politics and government; Ancient Greece.
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