Mogens Herman Hansen Livres

Aus dem Inhalt: N. Demand: Poleis on Cyprus and Oriental DespotismH. Bowden: The Greek Settlement and Sanctuaries at NaukratisT. H. Nielsen: Was There an Arkadian Confederacy in the Fifth Century B. C.? T. H. Nielsen: A Survey of Dependent Poleis in Classical ArkadiaJ. Roy: Polis and Tribe in Classical ArkadiaA. G. Keen: Were the Boiotian Poleis Autonomoi? M. H. Hansen: Were the Boiotian Poleis Deprived of Their Autonomia During the First and Second Boiotian Federations? A ReplyP. Flensted-Jensen/M. H. Hansen: Pseudo-Skylax’ Use of the Term PolisM. H. Hansen: City-Ethnics as Evidence for Polis Identity

"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.

In June 2012 a conference about Athenian democracy in the fourth century B.C. was held in Berlin at the Humboldt University. The conference was organized by Claudia Tiersch, professor of ancient history at the Humboldt University. She invited 19 distinguished scholars to speak about various aspects of Society, economy and political institutions in Athens in the period 403 to 322. Revised versions of the contributions were published in November 2016 with the title: Die Athenische Demokratie im 4. Jahrhundert. Zwischen Modernisierung und Tradition. The present book contains an assessment of, and comments on, Tiersch's introduction and the nineteen contributions. The basic sources have been reexamined and they have often been supplemented with other relevant sources and reflections. Naturally, the subjects of the 20 studies in the conference report do not form an exhaustive description of Athenian democracy. In the final chapter, Mogens Herman Hansen suggests a number of additional topics that might be treated on future conferences on Athenian democracy in the fourth century B.C.

The second volume of The Athenian Ecclesia covers the authors articles on the subject in the period 1983-1989 on the working and functioning of the Athenian assembly. The book covers a variety of elements in the discussion of the Ecclesia, such as politicians, the political organization of Attica, how the assembly met and what and whom it consisted of.

Mogens Herman Hansen is a renowned classics scholar and a leading authority on Athenian democracy and the ancient Greek city-state.  Reflections on Aristotle’s ‘Politics’  collects, revises, and expands on Hansen’s expert understandings of this fundamental text on politics. Addressing old controversies with fresh perspectives and treating issues that have previously been ignored or neglected, Hansen sheds new light on a range of issues of paramount importance for understanding the  Politics .            Hansen engages Aristotle with depth, examines topics such as his view of democratic and political freedom as standalone values, his surprising silence regarding the numerous federal states of the Hellenic world, and his alternative to the traditional sixfold model of constitutions. Perhaps most provocatively, Hansen shows that Aristotle positively viewed a mixed form of democracy—democracy and oligarchy, democracy via the election of officials—which most democratic states practice today. Collecting a wealth of insights into a single volume, Hansen offers students and scholars a master guide to the text that would define western political thought. 

Polis, in plural poleis, is the word the ancient Greeks used to describe their principal type of state and community and the most common of all nouns in ancient Greek. In Archaic and Classical sources there are over 11,000 attestations of the word, and they show that it was used in two different senses: (1) town (sometimes including the hinterland) and (2) state (sometimes including the territory). Often it carries both senses simultaneously and denotes both the state and its urban centre. The Copenhagen Polis Centre (1993-2005) conducted a number of investigations into the use and meanings of the term polis in all Archaic and Classical sources to find out what the Greeks thought a polis was. The present volume is a thoroughly revised and updated comprehensive publication of all these studies, to which four new studies have been added. They show that the two different meanings of the word polis are connected through their reference: with very few exceptions every polis town was the urban centre of a polis state, and conversely: virtually every polis state had an urban centre called a polis in the sense of town.

The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps the most nearly perfect example of direct democracy. Covering the period 403-322 B.C., Mogens Herman Hansen focuses on the crucial last thirty years, which coincided with the political career of Demosthenes. Hansen distinguishes between the city’s seven political institutions: the Assembly, the nomothetai, the People’s Court, the boards of magistrates, the Council of Five Hundred, the Areopagos, and ho boulomenos. He discusses how Athenians conceived liberty both as the ability to participate in the decision-making process and as the right to live without oppression from the state or other citizens.

An accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state. Mogens Herman Hansen addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political culture, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta through more than 1,000 known examples.

W prezentowanej książce znajdujemy zarys charakterystyki polis, z uwzględnieniem wyników badań i publikacji Copenhagen Polis Centre. Autor analizuje główne cechy polis, stanowiącej fundament całej cywilizacji greckiej. Umieszcza grecką polis w szerokim kontekście 'City-State Cultures', znanych z innych epok i z innych części świata; szuka różnic i podobieństw; różnorodnych składowych, które ułatwić mogą pełne zrozumienie greckiego fenomenu. Hansen omawia koncepcje miasta, państwa, miasta-państwa i kultur miast-państw, charakteryzuje kultury miast-państw znanych z różnych epok, np. Sumerów w Mezopotamii, Hazor w Palestynie, miast etruskich, Mediolan, Florencję, Wenecję w średniowieczu.

Contents: F. de Polignac: Repenser la „cité“? Rituels et société en Grèce archaïque — M. H. Hansen: The „Autonomous City-State“. Ancient Fact or Modern Fiction? — M. H. Hansen: Kome. A Study in How the Greeks Designated and Classified Settlements which were not Poleis — T. H. Nielsen: Was Eutaia a Polis? A Note on Xenophon’s Use of the Term Polis in the Hellenika — P. Flensted-Jensen: The Bottiaians and their Poleis — S. G. Miller: Old Metroon and Old Bouleuterion in the Classical Agora of Athens — T. L. Shear, Jr.: Bouleuterion, Metroon and the Archives at Athens — A. Avram: Poleis und Nicht-Poleis im Ersten und Zweiten Attischen Seebund — W. Burkert: Greek Poleis and Civic Cults. Some Further Thoughts — L. Rubinstein: Pausanias as a Source for the Classical Greek Polis