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An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Hardcover, New)
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An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Hardcover, New)
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This is the first ever documented study of the 1,035 identifiable
Greek city states (poleis) of the Archaic and Classical periods
(c.650-325 BC). Previous studies of the Greek polis have focused on
Athens and Sparta, and the result has been a view of Greek society
dominated by Sophokles', Plato's, and Demosthenes' view of what the
polis was. This study includes descriptions of Athens and Sparta,
but its main purpose is to explore the history and organization of
the thousand other city states. The main part of the book is a
regionally organized inventory of all identifiable poleis covering
the Greek world from Spain to the Caucasus and from the Crimea to
Libya. This inventory is the work of 47 specialists, and is divided
into 46 chapters, each covering a region. Each chapter contains an
account of the region, a list of second-order settlements, and an
alphabetically ordered description of the poleis. This description
covers such topics as polis status, territory, settlement pattern,
urban centre, city walls and monumental architecture, population,
military strength, constitution, alliance membership, colonization,
coinage, and Panhellenic victors. The first part of the book is a
description of the method and principles applied in the
construction of the inventory and an analysis of some of the
results to be obtained by a comparative study of the 1,035 poleis
included in it. The ancient Greek concept of polis is distinguished
from the modern term `city state', which historians use to cover
many other historic civilizations, from ancient Sumeria to the West
African cultures absorbed by the nineteenth-century colonializing
powers. The focus of this project is what the Greeks themselves
considered a polis to be.
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