Thomas Heine Nielsen Livres

Inhalt: M. H. Hansen: Polis as the Generic Term for State – id.: Hekataios' Use of the Word Polis in His Periegesis – id.: A Typology of Dependent Poleis – G. R. Tsetskhladze: A Survey of the Major Urban Settlements in the Kimmerian Bosporos – M. H. Hansen: Emporion. A Study of the Use and Meaning of the Term – J. Hind: Colonies and Ports-of-Trade on the Northern Shores of the Black Sea – P. Flensted-Jensen: Polis Identification in the Chalkidic Peninsula – T. H. Nielsen: Triphylia. An Experiment in Ethnic Construction and Political Organisation – J. Forsén / B. Forsén: The Polis of Asea – P. Flensted-Jensen: Index of Sources for CPC-Papers 1–4 – T. H. Nielsen: General Index for CPC-Papers 1–4, including Names „An index of sources cited and a general index to all four volumes of paper from the CPC in this series are particularly valuable. These master indices will be extremely useful to scholars wishing to consult the work of the CPC about a particular topic or geographic region.“ Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Presents two studies in the history of ancient Greek athletics. The first study is a survey of the number of festivals with athletic and equestrian competitions which existed throughout the Greek world in the late Archaic and Classical periods. It demonstrates that athletic festivals were celebrated in far greater numbers than previously assumed. The second study discusses the symbolic value and prestige of athletic victories achieved at the sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea in the Peloponnese, by focusing on the value attached by victorious athletes and their home communities to such victories and by situating the contests at Nemea in the competitive landscape of late Archaic and Classical Greece delineated in the first study. It concludes that the prestige of a Nemean victory far outshone that of a victory in any of the numerous athletic festivals which did not form a part of the great Big Four: the Olympic, Pythian, Isthmian and Nemean festivals.

This volume is the seventh collection of studies in the ancient Greek city-state by The Copenhagen Polis Centre. It contains articles devoted to ancient urbanisation, the Athenian tribute quota lists, Lakedaimonian perioikoi, Greek patriotism and naming practices. It will be of interest to ancient historians, classical philologists, classicists, anthropologists and urban historians. ContentsConventions Mogens Herman Hansen: The Concept of the Consumption City Applied to the Greek Polis Thomas Heine Nielsen: The Concept of Patris in Archaic and Classical Sources Bjørn Paarmann: Geographically Grouped Ethnics in the Athenian Tribute Lists Mogens Herman Hansen: Sane on Pallene Mogens Herman Hansen: The Use of Sub-Ethnics as Part of the Name of a Greek Citizen of the Classical Period: The Full Name of a Greek Citizen Mogens Herman Hansen: Was Every Polis Town? Mogens Herman Hansen: The Perioikic Poleis of Lakedaimon Index of Sources General Index

This study sets out to identify the poleis (city-states) of ancient Arkadia. After a brief research report, the author addresses the question: what was Arkadia? by discussing the ethnic, geographical, and political aspects of the concept of Arkadia. The study goes on to demonstrate that poleis had emerged in Arkadia by the sixth century, when they appear as templebuilders, belligerents etc. A separate chapter is devoted to Triphylia, an area which was not originally a part of Arkadia, but gradually merged with Arkadia in the Classical period, and perhaps drew a good deal of inspiration from the so-called ‘tribal states’ of Arkadia. These were small federal states comprising a number of minor Arkadian poleis which all shared a common subregional identity. The study furthermore explores the hierarchy of the Arkadian poleis, their relations with foreign powers, especially Sparta, and ends by tracing the transformation of the Arkadian polis structure caused by the foundation of the Arkadian Confederacy, the synoecism of Megalopolis, and the dissolution of the Peloponnesian League. Two appendices give minute descriptions of every polis of Arkadia and Triphylia.

A series of new Papers from the Copenhagen Polis Centre. Among other things, these important papers discuss the role and function of theatres in the Greek world, the nature of early Cretan laws, how Greeks and indigenous peoples interacted on Sicily and in Magna Graecia, and whether or not the modern concept of ’the stateless society‘ applies to the ancient Greek polis. Contents: Mogens Herman Hansen: The Game Called Polis Mogens Herman Hansen: Was the Polis a State or a Stateless Society? Thomas Heine Nielsen: Phrourion. A Note on the Term in Classical Sources and in Diodorus Siculus Rune Frederiksen: The Greek Theatre. A Typical Building in the Urban Centre of the Polis? Tobias Fischer-Hansen: Reflections on Native Settlements in the Dominions of Gela and Akragas – as Seen from the Perspective of the Copenhagen Polis Centre Paula Perlman: Gortyn. The First Seven Hundred Years. Part II. The Laws from the Temple of Apollo Pythios James Roy: The Pattern of Settlement in Pisatis: the ‘Eight Poleis’ James Roy: The Synoikism of Elis Index of Sources (Literary Texts, Inscriptions and Papyri) General Index

Contains 35 articles devoted to different aspects of the Greek polis and is intended not only as a present for Mogens Herman Hansen on his sixtieth birthday, but also as a way of thanking him for his significant contributions to the field of Greek history over the past three decades.