Author : Pernille Flensted-Jensen
Release : 2000
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Further Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis by : Pernille Flensted-Jensen
Download or read book Further Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis written by Pernille Flensted-Jensen. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 12 essays that explore the identity of Ancient Greece as a nation of very different communities. The volume begins with a study of the continuity of Greek culture and society as shown by the ease with which Greeks identified their local deities with those in Hesiod and Homer. Other topics include: the relationship between population size and political strength in the Arkadian Poleis; the reasons for the shifting location of the city of Miletos; whether Ancient Sparta was a Polis; the political organisation of East Locris in the Classical period; the Chalcidic Peninsula and Thrace; the use of the word `Polis' in the works of Xenophon, historians, Attic orators, inscriptions and in other Archaic and Classical sources. This useful history concludes with an index of literary sources, inscriptions and names.