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Author | : Kostas Vlassopoulos |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521188074 |
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This 2007 study explores how modern scholars came to write Greek history from a Eurocentric perspective and challenges orthodox readings of Greek history as part of the history of the West. Since the Greeks lacked a national state or a unified society, economy or culture, the polis has helped to create a homogenising national narrative. This book re-examines old polarities such as those between the Greek poleis and Eastern monarchies, or between the ancient consumer and the modern producer city, in order to show the fallacies of standard approaches. It argues for the relevance of Aristotle's concept of the polis, which is interpreted in an intriguing manner. Finally, it proposes an alternative way of looking at Greek history as part of a Mediterranean world-system. This interdisciplinary study engages with debates on globalisation, nationalism, Orientalism and history writing, while also debating developments in classical studies.
Author | : Ko ̄stas Vlassopoulos |
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Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780511367694 |
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This text challenges orthodox readings of Greek history centred on the polis and proposes a broader approach.
Author | : Kōstas Vlassopoulos |
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Release | : 2005 |
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Author | : Kostas Vlassopoulos |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2009-10-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0857724967 |
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Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which 'gave' the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. And the desire by the western powers, especially America, to foment (or impose) democracy across the globe is one of the most powerful driving motors in present-day geopolitics: not least in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus, a lively and well informed treatment of the nexus between politics in antiquity and political discourse in the modern era is both timely and apposite. As Kostas Vlassopoulos shows, much can be learned about the practice of politics from a comparative discussion of the classical and the contemporary. His starting point is that the value of looking back to a political system with different assumptions and elements can help us think, and even shape, what the future of modern politics might be. He discusses the contrasting political systems prevalent in the Greek city-states of Athens, Sparta and Corinth; tensions between democrats and oligarchs in Periclean Athens; the bitter rivalries which led to the Peloponnesian Wars in the fifth century BCE; and, the delicate balance of powers between people, senate and emperor in the hierarchical society of republican and latterly imperial Rome. Above all, the book shows how important and surprising the study of antiquity can be in reassessing and revaluating modern political debates.
Author | : Pernille Flensted-Jensen |
Publisher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788772896281 |
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Contains 35 articles devoted to different aspects of the Greek polis and is intended not only as a present for Mogens Herman Hansen on his sixtieth birthday, but also as a way of thanking him for his significant contributions to the field of Greek history over the past three decades.
Author | : Thomas Heine Nielsen |
Publisher | : Franz Steiner Verlag |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Cities and towns, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9783515081023 |
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A series of new Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre. Among other things, these important papers discuss the role and function of theatres in the Greek world, the nature of early Cretan laws, how Greeks and indigenous peoples interacted on Sicily and in Magna Graecia, and whether or not the modern concept of 'the stateless society' applies to the ancient Greek polis.
Author | : Thomas Heine Nielsen |
Publisher | : Franz Steiner Verlag |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783515084383 |
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This volume publishes a further seven papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre, five of which are written by Morgens Herman Hanson. The specialised papers make full use of inscriptions and other written sources to make comparative analyses of the nature of poleis, their citizens and their ethnicity. Subjects include: poleis as consumption cities; the concept of patris in sources; geographically grouped ethnics in the Athenian tribute lists; the evidence for two poleis called Sane; the names of Greek citizens; whether every polis state was centred on a polis town; the Perioikic poleis of Lakedaimon. Includes lists of sources. All of the papers are in English. The other two contributors are Thomas Heine Nielsen and Bjorn Paarmann.
Author | : Mogens Herman Hansen |
Publisher | : Franz Steiner Verlag |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Cities and towns, Ancient |
ISBN | : 9783515069694 |
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Aus dem Inhalt: N. Demand: Poleis on Cyprus and Oriental Despotism H. Bowden: The Greek Settlement and Sanctuaries at Naukratis T. H. Nielsen: Was There an Arkadian Confederacy in the Fifth Century B.C.' T. H. Nielsen: A Survey of Dependent Poleis in Classical Arkadia J. Roy: Polis and Tribe in Classical Arkadia A. G. Keen: Were the Boiotian Poleis Autonomoi? M. H. Hansen: Were the Boiotian Poleis Deprived of Their Autonomia During the First and Second Boiotian Federations? A Reply P. Flensted-Jensen/M. H. Hansen: Pseudo-Skylax' Use of the Term Polis M. H. Hansen: City-Ethnics as Evidence for Polis Identity .
Author | : Kostas Vlassopoulos |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1107244269 |
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This book is an ambitious synthesis of the social, economic, political and cultural interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in the Mediterranean world during the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. Instead of traditional and static distinctions between Greeks and Others, Professor Vlassopoulos explores the diversity of interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in four parallel but interconnected worlds: the world of networks, the world of apoikiai ('colonies'), the Panhellenic world and the world of empires. These diverse interactions set into motion processes of globalisation; but the emergence of a shared material and cultural koine across the Mediterranean was accompanied by the diverse ways in which Greek and non-Greek cultures adopted and adapted elements of this global koine. The book explores the paradoxical role of Greek culture in the processes of ancient globalisation, as well as the peculiar way in which Greek culture was shaped by its interaction with non-Greek cultures.
Author | : Thomas Heine Nielsen |
Publisher | : Franz Steiner Verlag |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783515072229 |
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A fourth collection of Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre, a collective whose "ulimate aim is to present a new analysis of the Archaic and Classical Greek polis ", through various wide-ranging and thematically specific investigations. This volume and the others in the series are released in advance of the publication of a general synthesis of findings, hence the thematic incoherence of the titles contained herein: Polis as the Generic Term for State, Hekataios' Use of the Word Polis in His Periegesis , and A Typology of Dependent Poleis (Mogens Herman Hansen) ; A Survey of the Major Urban Settlements in the Kimmerian Bosphoros (With a Discussion of Their Status as Poleis ) (Gocha R. Tsetskhladze) ; Emporion . A Study of the Use and Meaning of the Term in the Archaic and Classical Periods (Mogens Herman Hansen) ; Colonies and Ports-of-Tradee on the Northern Shores of the Black Sea: Borysthenes, Kremnoi and the "Other Pontic Emporia in Herodotos (John Hind) ; Some Problems in Polis Identification in the Chalkidic Peninsula (Pernille Flensted-Jensen) ; Triphylia . An Experiment in Ethnic Construction adn Political Organisation (Thomas Heine Nielsen) ; The Polis of Asea. A Case-Study of How Archaeology Can expand Our Knowlege of the History of a Polis (Jeanette Fors�n and Bj�rn Fors�n) .