Table Of Content

Contents Page: vii Introduction Page: 1 I. CITY-STATES IN WORLD HISTORY Page: 5 1. Cities, States, City-States and City-State Cultures Page: 7 2. A Sketch of the Thirty-Seven Identified City-State Cultures Page: 17 3. ‘Country-States’ versus City-State Cultures Page: 24 II.THE CITY-STATE CULTURE IN ANCIENT GREECE Page: 29 Introduction Page: 31 4. The Unity of the City-State Culture of Ancient Greece Page: 33 5. The Rise of the Ancient Greek City-State Culture Page: 39 6. The End of the City-State Culture in Ancient Greece Page: 48 7. How Poleis Arose and Disappeared Page: 51 8. What is a Polis? An Investigation of the Concept of ‘Polis’ Page: 56 9. The Polis as City and State Page: 62 10. Polis as City Page: 66 11. The Settlement Pattern of the Ancient Greek City-States Page: 67 12. The Size and Population of the Cities Page: 73 13. The Demography of the Greek City-State Culture Page: 77 14. The Economy of the Cities: Max Weber’s ‘Ideal Type’ Page: 85 15. Polis as City in the Archaic Period Page: 98 16. The Greek Conception of Polis as a City with a Hinterland Page: 101 17. Polis as State Page: 106 18. Army Page: 116 19. Religion Page: 118 20. State and Society Page: 122 21. Civil War (Stasis) Page: 125 22. Relationships between Poleis Page: 127 23. The Hellenistic Polis Page: 132 III. CONCLUSION Page: 135 24. The Polis Compared with Other City-State Cultures Page: 137 Notes Page: 147 References Page: 191 Index of Sources Page: 215 Index of Names Page: 226 A Page: 226 B Page: 227 C Page: 227 D Page: 228 E Page: 228 F Page: 228 G Page: 228 H Page: 229 I Page: 229 J Page: 229 K Page: 229 L Page: 230 M Page: 230 N Page: 231 O Page: 231 P Page: 231 R Page: 232 S Page: 232 T Page: 233 U Page: 234 V Page: 234 W Page: 234 X Page: 234 Y Page: 234 Z Page: 234 General Index Page: 235 A Page: 235 B Page: 235 C Page: 235 D Page: 235 E Page: 236 F Page: 236 G Page: 236 H Page: 236 I Page: 236 K Page: 236 L Page: 236 M Page: 236 N Page: 236 O Page: 236 P Page: 236 R Page: 237 S Page: 237 T Page: 237 U Page: 237 V Page: 237 W Page: 237 X Page: 237 Z Page: 237

Description:

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 provides a thoroughly accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state, which represents by far the largest of all city-state cultures. He addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political organization, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta through more than 1,000 known examples.