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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815286603321

Titolo

The Greek city states : a sourcebook / / [compiled and translated by] Peter J. Rhodes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2007

ISBN

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

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

RhodesP. J (Peter John)

Disciplina

938

Soggetti

Greece History To 146 B.C

Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous ed.: London: Croom Helm, 1986.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Hellenistic and Roman periods in which the Greeks tried to preserve their way of life in a world of great powers. For this second edition the book has been thoroughly revised and three new chapters added.