Early Greek States Beyond the Polis

ISBN-13: 9780415089968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 326 str.

Catherine Morgan

Opis

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. Communities called polis existed within wider political structures of various kinds. So what were the different forms of association experienced by Early Iron Age and Archaic Greeks? What impact did they have on the way in which individuals and groups thought of themselves and others, and what role did they play in the formation of federal states?

O autorze

Catherine Morgan