Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State

by Mogens Herman Hansen

Book Overview

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 center 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199208506
• ISBN13: 9780199208500
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.1"