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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783611303321

Autore

Morgan Catherine <1961, >

Titolo

Early Greek states beyond the polis / / Catherine Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-87769-2

1-134-87770-6

0-203-41775-5

0-415-48671-8

1-280-54352-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps

Classificazione

15.51

Disciplina

321/.00938

Soggetti

Greeks - Ethnic identity - History - To 1500

Group identity - Greece - History - To 1500

Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-321) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Ethnos and polis; Ethne, ethnicity and tribalism; Archaeology and early Greek ethne; Thessaly; Phokis; East Lokris; Achaia; Arkadia; Big sites and place identities; Big sites or urban entities?; Questions of scale; Place identities; Economics, subsistence and production; Political statements in big sites; Symbols of authority; Thessaly; Larisa; Pherai; Dimini, Sesklo and Volos; Thessalian geography and the Catalogue of Ships; Conclusion; Communities of cult; The cult systems of Phokis; The spread of cults

Temple buildings; The economic roles of sanctuary authorities; Arkadia; Conclusion; Territory, power and the ancestors; Ethne in the landscape; Community of territory?; Marginal areas and routes of communication; The territory of our ancestors?; Penestai; Burial and the past in Thessaly; Beyond the boundaries; Beyond the polis: political communities and political identities; Regional interconnections: the case of the Corinthian gulf; Envoi; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The polis has long been conceived as the most advanced form of Greek political society. Yet recent research into how early Greeks used the



term highlights discrepancies with modern views of the autonomous city state.