Author: Roderick T. Williams
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Publisher: Classical Numismatic Group
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Edward M. Harris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107035880
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 489

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Markets, Households and City-States in the Ancient Greek Economy brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy. The essays investigate the role of market-exchange in the economy of the ancient Greek world in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

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Publisher: Classical Numismatic Group
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Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198140991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1413

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This is the first ever documented study of the 1,035 identifiable Greek city states (poleis) of the Archaic and Classical periods (c.650-325 BC). Previous studies of the Greek polis have focused on Athens and Sparta, and the result has been a view of Greek society dominated by Sophokles', Plato's, and Demosthenes' view of what the polis was. This study includes descriptions of Athens and Sparta, but its main purpose is to explore the history andorganization of the thousand other city states.The main part of the book is a regionally organized inventory of all identifiable poleis covering the Greek world from Spain to the Caucasus and from the Crimea to Libya. This inventory is the work of 47 specialists, and is divided into 46 chapters, each covering a region. Each chapter contains an account of the region, a list of second-order settlements, and an alphabetically ordered description of the poleis. This description covers such topics as polis status,territory, settlement pattern, urban centre, city walls and monumental architecture, population, military strength, constitution, alliance membership, colonization, coinage, and Panhellenic victors.The first part of the book is a description of the method and principles applied in the construction of the inventory and an analysis of some of the results to be obtained by a comparative study of the 1,035 poleis included in it. The ancient Greek concept of polis is distinguished from the modern term `city state', which historians use to cover many other historic civilizations, from ancient Sumeria to the West African cultures absorbed by the nineteenth-century colonializingpowers. The focus of this project is what the Greeks themselves considered a polis to be.

Author: Andrew Meadows
Publisher: British Academy
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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A fully illustrated catalogue of over 1000 Greek coins in the collection of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, this publication offers within a single volume a remarkably full survey of the broad sweep of Greek coinage. The particularly rich collection held at Newcastle contains a number of important and rare coins, drawn from all areas of the Greek world, from Spain, Numidia and Carthage in the West to Greece, Asia Minor and the Levant in the East. The Newcastle collection has its origins in the exceptional group of Greek coins presented to the Society in 1852 by Algernon, 4th Duke of Northumberland. The collection was further augmented in 1932 through the bequest of Mrs E. F. Streatfeild. An important work of reference, this volume will be of interest to numismatists, coin collectors, and scholars and students of the archaeology and history of the Greek world.

Author: Richard A. Billows
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350289221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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This book presents a powerful new argument for how and why the Greek city-states, including their distinctive society and culture, came to be - and why they had the highly unusual and influential form they took. After reviewing early city-state formation, and the economic underpinnings of city-state society, three key chapters examine the way the Greeks developed their unique society. The spear, scroll and pebble encapsulate the book's core ideas. The Spear: city-state Greeks developed a citizen-militia military system that gave relatively equal importance to each citizen-warrior, thereby emboldening the citizen-warriors to demand political rights. The Pebble: the resultant growth of collective political systems of oligarchy and democracy led to thousands of citizens forming the sovereign element of the state; they made political decisions through communal debate and voting. The Scroll: in order for such systems to function, a shared information base had to be created, and this was done by setting up public notices of laws, proposed policies, public meeting agendas, and a host of other information. To access this information, these military and political citizens had to be able to read. Billows examines the spread of schools and literacy throughout the Greek world, showing that the male city-state Greeks formed the world's first-known mass literate society. He concludes by showing that it was the mass-literate nature of the Greek city-state society that explains the remarkable and influential culture the classical Greeks produced.

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Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: William E. Metcalf
Publisher:
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Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Shortly after her death, Nancy M. Waggoner's friends, colleagues and students commemorated her at a colloquium on the Greek coins of the fourth century. This book collects the presentations that were given at that colloquium on May 19, 1990. Contents: A Personal Reminiscence by Margaret Thompson, A Fifth-Century Circulation Hoard of Macedonian Tetrobols by Charles A. Hersh, Silver Coins and Public Slaves in the Athenian Law of 375/4 B.C. by Thomas R. Martin, Alexander's Earliest Macedonian Silver by Hyla A. Troxell, Circulation at Babylon in 323 B.C. by Martin J. Price, The Antioch Project by Arthur Houghton, and Arabian Alexanders by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi

Author: Lynette Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134754701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459

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The Greek polis has been arousing interest as a subject for study for a long time, but recent approaches have shown that it is a subject on which there are still important questions to be asked and worthwhile things to be said. This book contains a selection of essays which embody the results of the latest research, yet are presented so as to be accessible to non-specialist readers. Beyond the historical development of the Greek polis, the authors ask questions about the civic institutions of ancient Greece as a whole, and their relationships to each other. Questions of power, or the significance of a written code of law are discussed as well as the nature of Greek overseas settlements. The Development of the Greek Polis presents up-to-date research and asks up-to-date questions on various aspects of an important topic. It will be essential reading for all students and teachers of early Greek history and of the institutions of the ancient world.