Table of Contents

Introduction
I. City-States in World History
1: Cities, States, City-States and City-State Cultures
2: A Sketch of the 37 Identified City-State Cultures
3: `Country-States' versus City-State Cultures
II. The City-State Culture in Ancient Greece
Introduction
4: The Unity of the City-State Culture of Ancient Greece
5: The Rise of the Ancient Greek City-State Culture
6: The End of the City-State Culture in Ancient Greece
7: How Poleis Arose and Disappeared
8: What is a Polis? An Investigation of the Concept of `Polis'
9: The Polis as City and State
10: Polis as City
11: The Settlement Pattern of the Ancient Greek City-States
12: The Size and Population of the Cities
13: The Demography of the Ancient Greek City-State Culture
14: The Economy of the Cities: Max Weber's `Ideal Type'
15: Polis as City in the Archaic Period
16: The Greek Conception of Polis as a City with a Hinterland
17: Polis as State
18: Army
19: Religion
20: State and Society
21: Civil War (Stasis)
22: Relationships between Poleis
23: The Hellenistic Poleis
III. Conclusion
24: The Polis Compared with Other City-State Cultures

About the Author

Mogens Herman Hansen is Reader in Classics at Copenhagen University.

Reviews

This book will help those venturing for the first time outside of the Athenocentric realm of polis-studies; it provides an overview and introduction to comparative studies in the city-state and 'city-state culture.
*Classical Outlook*