Chris08 Posted September 18, 2008 Report Share Posted September 18, 2008 The ancient greeks I beleive were, seperated into city-states known as polis, I have various information on hand but wondered if anyone could maybe give me a breif history into there economy, and history, With regards to there economy, i have found a little but due to the loss of information on it, im struggleing to find any real links. Did it run like athens? with the assembly, and 50 representatives from each deme? did they also have xeno's and mettics or was they known as different? And finally as far as i can see sparta has eclipted there progress throughout, but argos did eventually become an ineffective allie of athens. Thanks -chris08 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted September 19, 2008 Report Share Posted September 19, 2008 (edited) Salve, Ch The ancient greeks I beleive were, seperated into city-states known as polis, I have various information on hand but wondered if anyone could maybe give me a breif history into there economy, and history, With regards to there economy, i have found a little but due to the loss of information on it, im struggleing to find any real links. Did it run like athens? with the assembly, and 50 representatives from each deme? did they also have xeno's and mettics or was they known as different? And finally as far as i can see sparta has eclipted there progress throughout, but argos did eventually become an ineffective allie of athens. Thanks -chris08 You're actually asking an extremely long question; the excellent Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis by MH Hansen & TH Nielsen from The Copenhagen Polis Centre enumerated 1035 Hellenic poleis, among which you may find any number of political and administrative alternatives; some were democracies (like Athens), some were monarchies, most were oligarchies. Here comes a nice INTRODUCTION to the Athenian democracy by Christopher W. Blackwell. There are some threads at UNRV that compare the diverse forms of government of some Hellenic poleis, eg. HERE. As far as I know, after a primordial monarchy, Argos alternate periods of oloigarchy and democracy (apparently more of the latter than of the former). Edited September 19, 2008 by ASCLEPIADES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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