Introduction
I. City-States in World History
1: Cities, States, City-States and City-State Cultures
2: A Sketch of the 37 Identified City-State Cultures
3: `Country-States' versus City-State Cultures
II. The City-State Culture in Ancient Greece
Introduction
4: The Unity of the City-State Culture of Ancient Greece
5: The Rise of the Ancient Greek City-State Culture
6: The End of the City-State Culture in Ancient Greece
7: How Poleis Arose and Disappeared
8: What is a Polis? An Investigation of the Concept of `Polis'
9: The Polis as City and State
10: Polis as City
11: The Settlement Pattern of the Ancient Greek City-States
12: The Size and Population of the Cities
13: The Demography of the Ancient Greek City-State Culture
14: The Economy of the Cities: Max Weber's `Ideal Type'
15: Polis as City in the Archaic Period
16: The Greek Conception of Polis as a City with a Hinterland
17: Polis as State
18: Army
19: Religion
20: State and Society
21: Civil War (Stasis)
22: Relationships between Poleis
23: The Hellenistic Poleis
III. Conclusion
24: The Polis Compared with Other City-State Cultures
Mogens Herman Hansen is Reader in Classics at Copenhagen University.
This book will help those venturing for the first time outside of
the Athenocentric realm of polis-studies; it provides an overview
and introduction to comparative studies in the city-state and
'city-state culture.
*Classical Outlook*
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