The Oxford History of the Classical World
Subtitle: Greece and the Hellenistic World (The Oxford History of the Classical World)
Contributors: John Boardman (Editor); Jasper Griffin (Editor); Oswyn Murray (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 10, 1988
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780192821652
First sentence: FOR most historians the characteristic and peculiar element in Greek political life has been the polis, the city-state, an institution of which any precise definition obscures the variety in size or shape or social and political organization.