Land of Sikyon: Archaeology and History of a Greek City-State by Yannis A. Lolos

Phoenix ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 385-387
Author(s):  
Konstantin Boshnakov
Keyword(s):  
Greek City ◽  
History Of ◽  
City State

Topography of Athens

Classics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Hurwit ◽  
Ioannis Mitsios
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
History Of ◽  
City States ◽  
City State ◽  
The City

The ancient city-state (or polis) of Athens was contiguous with the region known as Attica, a large, triangular peninsula extending southeastward from the Greek mainland into the Aegean Sea. In the western angle of Attica, on a coastal plain surrounded by four mountains (Hymettos, Pentelikon, Parnes, and Aigaleos), lay the city itself. Although the modern city has thickly spread up the slopes of the mountains as well as to the sea, the study of Athenian topography concentrates on the monuments, buildings, and spaces of the ancient urban core, an area roughly 3 square kilometers surrounding the Acropolis and defended in the Classical period by a wall some 6.5 kilometers in length. Athens is the ancient Greek city that we know best, and it is unquestionably the Greek city whose art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and political history have had the greatest impact on the Western tradition and imagination. As a result, “Athenian” is sometimes considered synonymous with “Greek.” It is not. In many respects, Athens was exceptional among Greek city-states, not typical: it was a very different place from, say, Thebes or Sparta. Still, the study of Athens, its monuments, and its culture needs no defense, and the charge of “Athenocentrism” is a hollow indictment when one stands before the Parthenon or holds a copy of Sophocles’ Antigone. This article will refer to the following periods in the history of Athens and Greece (the dates are conventional): late Bronze, or Mycenaean, Age (1550–1100 bce); Dark Age (1100–760 bce); Archaic (760–480 bce); Classical (480–323 bce); Hellenistic (323 –31 bce); and Roman (31 BCE–c. 475 ce).

Megara: The Political History of a Greek City-State to 336 B. C.

Phoenix ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 372
Author(s):  
Stanley M. Burstein ◽  
Ronald P. Legon ◽  
Nancy H. Demand ◽  
Thomas J. Figueira
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Greek City ◽  
History Of ◽  
City State

scholarly journals CONSTİTUTİONAL SYSTEMS, ATHENS AND SPARTA, ADMİNİSTRATİVE SYSTEM.

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (08) ◽  
pp. 135-148
Author(s):  
OMRAN AHMED HUSSEİN AL-SHARIF
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
History Of ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
City State

This research studies the development of constitutional systems among the Greeks in the cities of Athens and Sparta, in terms of the political and administrative system from the year 800 to 300 BC, that is, since the emergence of the first stages of the history of the Athenian constitution in the monarchy era, through the aristocratic and oligarchic regimes and the rule of tyrants, to the democratic system in Athens. Whereas every Greek city had its own political system that distinguishes it from others, which the nature of the terrain of their country contributed the greatest contribution to, as well as the idea of self-sufficiency for each Greek city, and the boldness of Greek thought. Rather, they took their position in the kingdom of thought and had the courage to research and ask questions to themselves and sought to perceive the universe in the light of reason. Therefore, a political system appeared in every city known as the city-state system. Thus, the Greek civilization provided for the development of political thought unless other human civilizations provided it. What the Greek philosophers presented in political thought during the fifth and fourth centuries BC still represents the basis on which modern political systems were built, and the research aims to To reveal the importance of the geography of the land of the Greeks, and its impact on their civilization, and to highlight the role of Greek philosophers in matters related to the organization of the state and government, and to trace the development of constitutional systems among the Greeks from the monarchy era to the democratic system in Athens, and to identify the reasons for the stagnation of political life in Sparta under the monarchy. The importance of study and research in this subject is due to the fact that it clarifies the opinions and ideas of the Greek philosophers on constitutional systems, and thus it is an attempt to add even a small part to the history of the constitutional systems of the Greeks‎‎. Keywords: Constitutional Systems, Athens and Sparta, Administrative System.

scholarly journals Elites, Elitism, and Community in the Archaic Polis

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (03) ◽  
pp. 395-418
Author(s):  
John Ma
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Institutional Pressures ◽  
Greek City ◽  
The Public ◽  
Potential Development ◽  
Political Access ◽  
History Of ◽  
City State

This article explores the famously diverse and expressive political cultures of the “Archaic” Greek communities (650 – 450 BCE) in the light of recent work on public goods and publicness, to which the present essay partly responds. This contribution may also be considered as a fragment of the long history of the Greekpolis. The distinction between “elitist” or “aristocratic” styles and “middling” or “popular” styles, upon closer examination, turns out to be a set of political play-acting gestures, predicated on different political institutions and notably on access to public goods. The “middling” styles paradoxically reflect restricted political access, while “aristocratic” competition in fact responds to the stress and uncertainties of broad enfranchisement. The whole nexus of issues and gestures surrounding distinction is hence not socially autonomous, but immediately linked to political requirements and institutional pressures. This article thus argues not just for the centrality of public goods topolisformation in early Greece, but also for the centrality of formal access and entitlements to the “public thing”—in other words, for the centrality of the state and its potential development. Putting the “state” back in the early history of the Greek city-state: the exercise has its own risks (notably that of teleology), but it attempts to avoid problems arising in recent histories of thepolis, where the state is downplayed or indeed dismissed altogether, and thepolisitself reduced to a pure phenomenon of elite capture or elite constitution.

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Antiquity ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (311) ◽  
pp. 247-248
Author(s):  
Madeleine Hummler
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Pliny The Younger ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
History Of ◽  
City State ◽  
Oxford University Press
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