The development of the polis in archaic Greece / edited by Lynette G. Mitchell and P.J. Rhodes. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1997. - xiii, 232 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.

Introduction/ P.J. Rhodes -- The Copenhagen inventory of poleis and the lex hafniensis de civitate/ Mogens Herman Hansen -- The 'origins of the Greek polis': where should we be looking?/ John K. Davies -- The relations of power in the pre-state and early state polities/ Walter Donlan -- Soldiers, citizens, and the evolution of the early Greek polis/ Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Lopping off the heads? Tyrants, politics and the polis/ John Salmon -- Law and laws: how do we join up the dots?/ Robin Osborne -- The development of Spartan society and institutions in the Archaic period/ Stephen Hodkinson -- A new solution to the riddle of the seisachtheia/ Edward M. Harris -- A view from the top: evaluating the Solonian property classes/ Lin Foxhall -- New wine in old wineskins: Solon, Arete and the Agathos/ Lynette G. Mitchell -- Evaluating the citizen in archaic Greek lyric, elegy and inscribed epigram/ George I. C. Robertson -- Themis: Religion and order in the arciac polis/ Emma J. Stafford -- The archaeology of sanctuaries in early iron age and archaic ethne: a preliminary view/ Catherine Morgan -- The nature of Greek overseas settlements in the archaic period: emporion or apoikia?/ John-Paul Wilson -- Servius Tullus, Cleisthenes and the emergence of the polis in central Italy/ Christopher Smith.

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