Polis : A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ma, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City-states--Greece--History--To 1500.

City-states.

Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Greece--Social conditions--To 146 B.C.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (737 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Polis".

Contents:

Frontmatter

contents

a note on tr anscr iption

list of illustr ations and maps

preface

Part I In Search of Polis

1 In Search of Polis

Part II Before the Polis: Possibilities 1100–700 BCE

2 To New Beginnings

3 Diversity and Community

Part III Making the Polis: Coalescence, Community, and Justice 675–450 BCE

4 Institutions, Community, Ideology 1, 2 , 3 , polis

5 600–450 BCE development, complexification, and citizenship

6 The Travails of Integration

Part IV Framing the “Classical” Polis 480–180 BCE

7 Political History (1) archē and autonomia in the hundred years’ war

8 Political History (2) politeia and stasis

9 The Great Convergence

10 The Qualities of the Polis

Part V Polis and Imperium 180 BCE–400 CE

11 The Indian Summer of the Polis

12 The Ends of Liberty

13 Polis, People, and Power in the Roman Empire

14 Cooptations, Prolongations, and Endings

Part VI Making Sense of the Polis

15 Polis as Society

16 Polis as Ideals

17 Polis as Interests

18 Bad Polis the r ealities of power

19 Worst Polis polis a s injustice

Part VII Polis of Our Wishes

20 Polis of Our Wishes

Abbreviations

Notes

Chronology

Bibliography

Illustrations Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780691255484

0691255482

OCLC:

1429723329