By Oswyn Murray, Simon Price
Those fourteen serious essays study the self sufficient Greek polis from its origins within the "Dark Age" till the purpose at which it used to be reworked right into a foundation for global civilization by way of the conquests of Alexander the good and the following enlargement of polis associations. members akin to B. D'Agostino, N. Purcell, O. Rackham, A. Snodgrass, L. Nixon, S. fee, M. Jameson, P. Schmitt-Pantel, M.H. Hansen, O. Murray, and W.G. Runciman, between others, talk about a variety of issues, together with the connection among panorama and town, the connection among private and non-private spheres, the phenomenon of the polis, the urbanization of the Italian peninsula, and the eventual decline of the polis.
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