From Political Architecture to Stephanus Byzantius : Sources for the Ancient Greek Polis

What was a polis? The Copenhagen Polis Centre (core-funded by the Danish National Research Foundation) has recently begun a broad series of investigations into the origins, nature and development of the ancient Greek city-states (poleis). This empirical project will be grounded in a comprehensive inventory of all attested poleis of the late archaic and classical periods (ca. 600 - ca. 323 B.C.); and that in turn necessitates an attempt to establish working principles, in source-criticism and historical methodology generally, for the differentiation of poleis from communities of other types. The present volume is a collection of papers, from members of the Centre, which seek to make preliminary contributions to the clarification of such principles.Whitehead, David is the author of 'From Political Architecture to Stephanus Byzantius : Sources for the Ancient Greek Polis', published 1994 under ISBN 9783515065726 and ISBN 3515065725.