Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-130) and index.
Cover -- Contents -- I: Land, Sea, and Sun -- Geography and Climate -- A Rural World -- The Shining Sea -- Rise and Fall of the Early Aegean World -- II: An Age of Chieftains -- Tribes and Chieftains -- Political Procedures in the Iliad -- The Power of the Basileus -- The Beginnings of Change: The Odyssey and Hesiod -- Social Structure and Values -- III: Crystallization of the Polis -- Appearance of the Polis -- The Physical Evidence -- Anthropological Models -- The Early Polis -- IV: Patriotism and Divisiveness -- The Demands of War -- Consolidation of Government -- The Aristocratic Way of Life -- Aristocratic Search for Wealth -- V: Upheaval and Reform -- Cities, Coins and Thinkers -- Reforms: Sparta and Athens -- Tyrants -- VI: The Polis World in 500 B.C. -- Athenian Democracy -- Greek Oligarchies -- The Perfected Polis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Last Page.
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In this study, the first systematic exploration of the forces that created the political framework for Greek civilization, Starr shows how the Greeks emerged from a Homeric world of individuals to the polis of 500 BC.
Individual and community.
9780195039719
Griekse oudheid.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- General.
Politics and government
Stadstaten.
Greece, Politics and government, To 146 B.C.
Grèce, Politique et gouvernement, Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.
Grèce, politique et gouvernement, jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.