The Oxford History of Greece & the Hellenistic World
Contributors: John Boardman (Editor); Jasper Griffin (Editor); Oswyn Murray (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780192801371
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.