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Probablepolis

Author : Dell Richard Dell and Rowan Dellderonde
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440192804
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Probablepolis written by Dell Richard Dell and Rowan Dellderonde and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Moebius, a madman with a flair for the absurd, creates a Holographic, simulated Universe that he calls ProbablePolis, and then promptly kidnaps his senior lab assistant, Dr. Limberly Rondell, to vanishes into it for all time. Limberly's husband, Shard Rondell, a special forces commando with the MoonClock Project, goes in after her through the MoonClock Gate and is never heard from again. Moebius thinks he has all bases covered, but he's done far too good a job of programming the LOGOS, an autonomous sentient software program that runs all ProbablePolis; the LOGOS manages to figure out how to coax the Rondells ten year old daughter, little Nowar Rondell, to come into the breach to help save her Mother and Father, and hopefully, all of ProbablePolis... This book is a Theosophany of sorts, an adventurous journey through metaphysical pop culture, combining elements of humor, quantum physics, gnosticism, history, mythology, geometry, musicology and fantasy into what could otherwise be misconstrued as an exercise in an action-adventure.

An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191518255
Total Pages : 1416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and organization 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 colonializing powers. The focus of this project is what the Greeks themselves considered a polis to be.

The Fortifications of Arkadian City States in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods

Author : Matthew P. Maher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019878659X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fortifications of Arkadian City States in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods by : Matthew P. Maher

Download or read book The Fortifications of Arkadian City States in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods written by Matthew P. Maher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated study comprises a comprehensive and detailed account of the historical development of Greek military architecture and defensive planning, specifically in Arkadia in the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Employing data gathered from the published literature, and collected during the field reconnaissance of every site, the fortification circuit of each Arkadian polis is explored. In this way, the book provides an accurate chronology for the walls in question; an understanding of the relationship between the fortifications and the local topography; a detailed inventory of all the fortified poleis of Arkadia; a regional synthesis based on this inventory; and the probable historical reasons behind the patterns observed through the regional synthesis. Maher argues that there is no evidence for fortified poleis in Arkadia during the Archaic period. However, when the poleis were eventually fortified in the Classical period, the fact that most appeared in the early fourth century BC, strategically distributed in limited geographic areas, suggests that the larger defensive concerns of the Arkadian League were a factor. Although the defensive responses to innovations in siege warfare and offensive artillery of the Arkadian fortifications follow the same general developments observable in the circuits found throughout the Greek world, there does exist a number of interesting and noteworthy, regionally specific, patterns. Such discoveries validate the methodology employed and clearly demonstrate the value of an exclusively regional focus for shedding light on a number of architectural, topographical, and historic issues.

Proxeny and Polis

Author : William Joseph Behm Garner Mack
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Ancient Docu
ISBN 13 : 019871386X
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Proxeny and Polis written by William Joseph Behm Garner Mack and published by Oxford Studies in Ancient Docu. This book was released on 2015 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known from ancient authors such as Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato, and more than 2,500 inscriptions, proxeny (a form of public guest-friendship) is the best attested interstate institution of the ancient world. This book offers a comprehensive re-examination of our evidence for this important Greek institution and uses it to examine the structure and dynamics of the interstate system of the Greek world, and the way in which these were transformed under the Roman Empire. Based on a detailed analysis of the function of the formulaic language of honorific decrees, this volume presents a new reconstruction of proxeny, and explores the way in which interstate institutions shaped the behaviour of individuals and communities in the ancient world. It draws on other material which has not been systematically exploited to reconstruct the proxeny networks of Greek city-states. This material reveals the extraordinary density of formal interconnections which characterized the ancient Greek world before the age of Augustus and reflected both trade and political contacts of different kinds. 0It also traces the disappearance of both proxeny and the broader institutional system of which it was part. Drawing on nuanced analysis of quantitative trends in the epigraphic record, it argues that the Greek world underwent a profound reorientation by the time of the Roman Principate, which fundamentally altered how Greek cities viewed relations with each other. Readership: For scholars and students interested in the history of ancient Greek institutions, epigraphy, ancient international relations, ancient Greek political structure, and the world of ancient Greece more generally.

The Early Greek Alphabets

Author : Robert Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192603833
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Early Greek Alphabets written by Robert Parker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of the Greek alphabet marked a new horizon in the history of writing, as the vowelless Phoenician alphabet was borrowed and adapted to write vowels as well as consonants. Rather than creating a single unchanging new tradition, however, its earliest attestations show a very great degree of diversity, as areas of the Greek-speaking world established their own regional variants. This volume asks how, when, where, by whom and for what purposes Greek alphabetic writing developed. Anne Jeffery's Local Scripts of Archaic Greece (1961), re-issued with a valuable supplement in 1990, was an epoch-making contribution to the study of these issues. But much important new evidence has emerged even since 1987, and debate has continued energetically about all the central issues raised by Jeffery's book: the date at which the Phoenician script was taken over and adapted to write vowels with separate signs; the priority of Phrygia or Greece in that process; the question whether the adaptation happened once, and the resulting alphabet then spread outwards, or whether similar adaptations occurred independently in several paces; if the adaptation was a single event, the region where it occurred, and the explanation for the many divergences in local script; what the scripts tell us about the regional divisions of archaic Greece. There has also been a flourishing debate about the development and functions of literacy in archaic Greece. The contributors to this volume bring a range of perspectives to bear in revisiting Jeffery's legacy, including chapters which extend the scope beyond Jeffery, by considering the fortunes of the Greek alphabet in Etruria, in southern Italy, and on coins.

Arkadia and Its Poleis in the Archaic and Classical Periods

Author : Thomas Heine Nielsen
Publisher : Vandehoeck & Rupprecht
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Arkadia and Its Poleis in the Archaic and Classical Periods written by Thomas Heine Nielsen and published by Vandehoeck & Rupprecht. This book was released on 2002 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Annual of the British School at Athens

Author : British School at Athens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Annual of the British School at Athens written by British School at Athens and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A short history of the British school at Athens. 1886-1911", by G. A. Macmillan: no. 17, p. [ix]-xxxviii.

Episcopal Watchman

Author : George Washington Doane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Episcopal Watchman written by George Washington Doane and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historisk-filosofiske meddelelser

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Historisk-filosofiske meddelelser written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Brooklyn Museum Annual

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book The Brooklyn Museum Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
ISBN 13 : 9788773042915
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. This book was released on 1997 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Polis

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191526037
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Polis written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-10-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity until the nineteenth century, there have been two types of state: macro-states, each dotted with a number of cities, and regions broken up into city-states, each consisting of an urban centre and its hinterland. A region settled with interacting city-states constituted a city-state culture and Polis opens with a description of the concepts of city, state, city-state, and city-state culture, and a survey of the 37 city-state cultures so far identified. Mogens Herman Hansen provides a thoroughly accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state, which represents by far the largest of all city-state cultures. He addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political organization, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta through more than 1,000 known examples.

The Ancient Greek City-state

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
ISBN 13 : 9788773042427
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Greek City-state written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor

Author : Sviatoslav Dmitriev
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195170423
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor by : Sviatoslav Dmitriev

Download or read book City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor written by Sviatoslav Dmitriev and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor examines the social and administrative transformation of Greek society within the early Roman empire, assessing the extent to which the numerous changes in Greek cities during the imperial period ought to be attributed to Roman influence. The topic is crucial to our understanding of the foundations of Roman imperial power because Greek speakers comprised the empire's second largest population group and played a vital role in its administration, culture, and social life. This book elucidates the transformation of Greek society in this period from a local point of view, mostly through the study of local sources such as inscriptions and coins. By providing information on public activities, education, family connections, and individual careers, it shows the extent of and geographical variation in Greek provincial reaction to the changes accompanying the establishment of Roman rule. In general, new local administrative and social developments during the period were most heavily influenced by traditional pre-Roman practices, while innovations were few and of limited importance. Concentrating on the province of Asia, one of the most urbanized Greek-speaking provinces of Rome, this work demonstrates that Greek local administration remained diverse under the Romans, while at the same time local Greek nobility gradually merged with the Roman ruling class into one imperial elite. This conclusion interprets the interference of Roman authorities in local administration as a form of interaction between different segments of the imperial elite, rejecting the old explanation of such interference as a display of Roman control over subjects.

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

Author : Nigel Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113678800X
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece written by Nigel Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.

The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes

Author : Mogens Herman Hansen
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806131436
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (314 download)

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Book Synopsis The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes by : Mogens Herman Hansen

Download or read book The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes written by Mogens Herman Hansen and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps most nearly perfect example of direct democracy. Covering the period 403-322 B.C., Mogens Herman Hansen focuses on the crucial last thirty years, which coincided with the political career of Demosthenes. Hansen distinguishes between the city's seven political institutions: the Assembly, the nomothetai, the People's Court, the boards of magistrates, the Council of Five Hundred, the Areopagos, and ho boulomenos. He discusses how Athenians conceived liberty both as the ability to participate in the decision-making process and as the right to live without oppression from the state or other citizens. Equality was conceived of as an equality not of nature but of opportunity.

Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces

Author : C. J. Howgego
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199265267
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces written by C. J. Howgego and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, and this authoritative collection of essays, by a team of leading international scholars, introduces and explores the coinage of the whole Roman world, from Britain to Egypt, from 200 BC to AD 300. - ;Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systematic treatment of, the subject. Sixteen leading international scholars have sought to address this need by producing this authoritative collection of essays, which.