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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778294003321

Autore

Hansen Mogens Herman <1940->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia : , : University of Missouri Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

0-8262-6548-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 140 pages)

Collana

The Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series

Disciplina

938

Soggetti

Ethnology - Greece

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.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Abbreviations; I The Shotgun Method Used to Establish the Number of Inhabitants in the Ancient Greek City-States; II The Population of Walled Poleis; III The Proportion of the Population Settled in the Hinterland; IV The Carrying Capacity of the Ancient Greek Polis World; Appendix 1 Some Test Cases; Appendix 2 Population of the Greek Homeland versus the Population of Colonies and Hellenized Communities; Appendix 3 Walled Poleis Organized according to Size of Territory; Appendix 4 Walled Poleis Geographically Organized. Appendix 5 The Population of Walled Poleis in Epeiros and Makedonia Appendix 6 Corvisier's Calculation of the Urban Population of Thessaly; Bibliography; Index of Sources; Index of Names

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.