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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451917503321

Autore

Hansen Mogens Herman <1940->

Titolo

The shotgun method [[electronic resource] ] : the demography of the ancient Greek city-state culture / / Mogens Herman Hansen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8262-6548-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Collana

The Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series

Disciplina

938

Soggetti

Ethnology - Greece

Electronic books.

Greece Population History Congresses

Greece History To 146 B.C Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-132) and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

"Reflecting the innovative work of the Copenhagen Polis Centre's 2004 inventory of Archaic and Classical Greek city-states, Hansen's "shotgun method" for reconstructing and estimating the overall size and local distribution of the Greek population challenges the long-standing opinion that the majority of ancient Greeks lived a rural, subsistent life"--Provided by publisher.