Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-132) and indexes.
Preface; Abbreviations; I The Shotgun Method Used to Establish the Number of Inhabitants in the Ancient Greek City-States; II The Population of Walled Poleis; III The Proportion of the Population Settled in the Hinterland; IV The Carrying Capacity of the Ancient Greek Polis World; Appendix 1 Some Test Cases; Appendix 2 Population of the Greek Homeland versus the Population of Colonies and Hellenized Communities; Appendix 3 Walled Poleis Organized according to Size of Territory; Appendix 4 Walled Poleis Geographically Organized.
Appendix 5 The Population of Walled Poleis in Epeiros and MakedoniaAppendix 6 Corvisier's Calculation of the Urban Population of Thessaly; Bibliography; Index of Sources; Index of Names.
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"Reflecting the innovative work of the Copenhagen Polis Centre's 2004 inventory of Archaic and Classical Greek city-states, Hansen's "shotgun method" for reconstructing and estimating the overall size and local distribution of the Greek population challenges the long-standing opinion that the majority of ancient Greeks lived a rural, subsistent life"--Provided by publisher.
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Shotgun method.
Ethnology-- Greece, Congresses.
Ethnologie-- Grèce, Congrès.
Ethnology.
HISTORY-- Ancient.
Population.
Greece, History, To 146 B.C., Congresses.
Greece, Population, History, Congresses.
Grèce, Histoire, Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C., Congrès.