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Polis

Paperback • 2006 • English

Polis: An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State

By Mogens Herman

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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 centre 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 so far identified. Mogens Herman Hansen provid...Show more

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9780199208500

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2006

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English

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Polis

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