The Greek city
Subtitle: from Homer to Alexander
By: edited by Oswyn Murray and Simon Price
Contributors: Murray, Oswyn; Price, S. R. F
Publisher: Clarendon
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: Cities and towns, Ancient -- Greece; Cities and towns -- Greece -- History; Municipal government -- Greece -- History; Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C
Notes: Originally published: 1990

Includes index
Table of contents: title: Cities of reason / Oswyn Murray; title: Mobility and the polis / Nicholas Purcell; title: Military organization and social structure in archaic Etruria / Bruno d'Agostino; title: Ancient landscapes / Oliver Rackham; title: Survey archaeology and the rural landscape of the Greek city / Anthony Snodgrass; title: The size and resources of Greek cities / Lucia Nixon and Simon Price; title: Private space and the Greek city / Michael Jameson; title: Collective activities and the political in the Greek city / Pauline Schmitt-Pantel; title: The political powers of the people's court in fourth-century Athens / Mogens Herman Hansen; title: Public property in the city / David Lewis; title: The demos and its divisions in classical Athens / Robin Osborne; title: What is polis religion? / Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood; title: Saving the city / Emily Kearns; title: Doomed to extinction : the polis as an evolutionary dead-end / W.G. Runciman