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UNINA9910457570103321 |
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Autore |
Rhodes P. J (Peter John) |
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Titolo |
The Greek city states : a source book / / P.J. Rhodes [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007 |
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1-107-16505-9 |
1-280-90953-6 |
9786610909537 |
0-511-81803-3 |
0-511-28558-2 |
0-511-28632-5 |
0-511-28399-7 |
0-511-32131-7 |
0-511-28479-9 |
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Edizione |
[Second edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C Sources |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Homeric state -- The Archaic state -- Economic and political developments : tyranny and after -- Sparta -- Athens -- Women and children -- Economic life -- Religion -- Other cities -- Beyond the single city -- The Hellenistic and Roman periods. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the formal mechanisms and informal workings of the Greek states in all their variety. From the states described by Homer out of which the classical Greeks believed their states had developed, through the archaic period which saw the rise and fall of tyrants and the gradual broadening of citizen bodies, to the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries, Rhodes also looks beyond that to the |
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