The Growth of the City State: Lectures on Greek and Roman History.

Halliday, William Reginald:

Published by Chicago: Argonat Publ., 1967

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264 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Cut soiled, jacket smaller than book, text part very clean. - The origin of the Greek city-state reaches back to the times of Homer and Hesiod, when the old monarchy was disappearing. The Polis arose as an antimonarchic State and it remained so, in spite of tyranny. It was a state of ven. small size, there being several reasons for political particularism in the Greek worldfirstly. the natural division of the country into many separate districts, islands, peninsulas, etc. ; further, the division of the Greek people into many larger or smaller tribes, and accordingly of the Greek religion into numerous local cults. Several hundreds of city-states existed, most of them extremely small. The State consisted of its citizens, considered less as individuals than as forming smaller communities of kinship, of cult, of locality. Each individual was tied to the life of all these communities and of the State. Moreover, the State was not only a politici community. To be a citizen meant adherence to the cults of the gods of the Polis, as well as military and economic service to the State, and obedience to its laws. The perfect Greek citizen is described by Aristotle, as at the same time attached to his polis, and a free man. Liberty, autonomy, autarky were the ideals of the polis, and its chief claim was to be ruled by law (nomos). In actual fact government remained a question of power, but the sacred nomos always directed and regulated actual politics. The Polis and its nomos lost its power and its function of leadership in Greek politics partly through the corruption of democracy, but more so through the overwhelming power of Alexanders empire and the Hellenistic monarchies. - Wikipedia: Sir William Reginald Halliday (26 September 1886 25 November 1966) was a historian and archaeologist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1928 to 1952. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Original cloth with dust jacket and foil jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Growth of the City State: Lectures on Greek and Roman History.
• Publisher: Chicago: Argonat Publ.
• Publication Date: 1967
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Unchanged reprint of the edition 1923.
• Condition: Gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 550 grams
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