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1 online resource (ix, 140 pages) |
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The Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series |
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Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series.
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| Contents |
Preface; Abbreviations; I The Shotgun Method Used to Establish the Number of Inhabitants in the Ancient Greek City-States; II The Population of Walled Poleis; III The Proportion of the Population Settled in the Hinterland; IV The Carrying Capacity of the Ancient Greek Polis World; Appendix 1 Some Test Cases; Appendix 2 Population of the Greek Homeland versus the Population of Colonies and Hellenized Communities; Appendix 3 Walled Poleis Organized according to Size of Territory; Appendix 4 Walled Poleis Geographically Organized |
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Appendix 5 The Population of Walled Poleis in Epeiros and MakedoniaAppendix 6 Corvisier's Calculation of the Urban Population of Thessaly; Bibliography; Index of Sources; Index of Names |
| Summary |
"Reflecting the innovative work of the Copenhagen Polis Centre's 2004 inventory of Archaic and Classical Greek city-states, Hansen's "shotgun method" for reconstructing and estimating the overall size and local distribution of the Greek population challenges the long-standing opinion that the majority of ancient Greeks lived a rural, subsistent life"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-132) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Greece -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- Ancient.
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Ethnology
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Population
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Population -- History -- Congresses
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Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Congresses
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006012905 |
| ISBN |
9780826265487 |
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0826265480 |
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