Polis : an introduction to the ancient Greek city-state /
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Oxford,UK :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Cities, states, city-states and city-state cultures
- A sketch of the thirty-seven identified city-state cultures
- 'Country-states' versus city-state cultures
- The unity of the city-state culture of ancient Greece
- The rise of the ancient Greek city-state culture
- The end of the city-state culture in ancient Greece
- How Poleis arose and disappeared
- What is a Polis? : an investigation of the concept of 'Polis'
- The Polis as city and state
- Polis as city
- The settlement pattern of the ancient Greek city-states
- The size and population of the cities
- The demography of the Greek city-state culture
- The economy of the cities : Max Weber's 'ideal type'
- Polis as city in the archaic period
- The Greek conception of Polis as a city with a hinterland
- Polis as state
- Army
- Religion
- State and society
- Civil War (stasis)
- Relationships between Poleis
- The Hellenistic Polis
- The Polis compared with other city-state cultures.