Contents; I: Land, Sea, and Sun; II: An Age of Chieftains; III: Crystallization of the Polis; IV: Patriotism and Divisiveness; V: Upheaval and Reform; VI: The Polis World in 500 B.C.; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
In this study, the first systematic exploration of the forces that created the political framework for Greek civilization, Starr shows how the Greeks emerged from a Homeric world of individuals to the polis of 500 BC