The Greek State
The Greek State
W. W. Norton & Company | ISBN 0416701108 | 1960 Edition | PDF | 457 pages | 2 MB
The Greek word, polis, "city" has become an integral part of our culture and appears in words such as polity and political. Scholars never tire of tracing the development of the first polities among the Greeks. From there one usually goes on to talk about the ideal, heavenly, or imaginary state. Ehrenberg's work, however, is another masterpiece of scholarship, detailing exactly how the individual states arose, began to confederate and then to unite, and what, because of it, our cultural expectations came to be regarding some such institution called "a polity."
