Author: Hansen, Mogens Herman
Title: Polis and City-State : An Ancient Concept and Its Modern Equivalent : Symposium January 9, 1998
Description: Copenhagen, Munksgaard, 1998. orig. boards. 24x15cm, 217 pages.. ISBN: 8773042935. Minor wear. VG. ¶ Series: Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre, 5. / Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Historisk-filosofiske Meddelelser, 76. Contents: The Meanings of the Word Polis; The Concept of State; The Concept of Polis;The Concepts of State & Society Compared with the Concept of Polis; How Old is the State?; Conclusion: The Concepts of Polis and State Compared. Appendix I: Polis denoting a Large Geographical or Political Unit (p. [124]-132); Appendix II: Aristotle’s Definition of ’Polis’ at Pol. 1276b1-2 (p. [133]-134); Appendix III: Was the ’Oikos’ a Civic or a Private Institution? (p. [135]-137); Appendix IV: The Term State as Used by Machiavelli, Bodin and Hobbes (p. [138]-141).

Keywords: 8773042935 Classical Antiquity, Ancient Greece, Greek City-State, Political History, Philosophy, Polis, State, Cities, Towns, City-States