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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Mogens Herman, 1940-

Series:

Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series.

The Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Greece--Congresses.

Ethnology.

Greece--Population--History--Congresses.

Greece.

Greece--History--To 146 B.C--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 140 pages)

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-132) and indexes.

ISBN:

0-8262-6548-0

OCLC:

290591364