The Greek City: From Homer to Alexander

ISBN-13: 9780198147916 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 400 str.

Oswyn Murray

Opis

These fourteen critical essays examine the autonomous Greek polis from its origins in the "Dark Age" until the point at which it was transformed into a basis for world civilization by the conquests of Alexander the Great and the subsequent expansion of polis institutions. Contributors such as B. D'Agostino, N. Purcell, O. Rackham, A. Snodgrass, L. Nixon, S. Price, M. Jameson, P. Schmitt-Pantel, M.H. Hansen, O. Murray, and W.G. Runciman, among others, discuss a wide range of topics, including the relationship between landscape and city, the relationship between public and private spheres, the phenomenon of the polis, the urbanization of the Italian peninsula, and the eventual decline of the polis.

Recenzje

`The reader, whilst not necessarily agreeing with the ideas expressed in the individual papers, will find the contributions controversial and stimulating'. E.J. Owens, The Classical Review, vol XLI, no 2, 1991.