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The shotgun method : the demography of the ancient Greek city-state culture /

"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-standin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hansen, Mogens Herman, 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2006]
Series:Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series.
Subjects:
Greece > Population > History > Congresses.
Ethnology > Greece > Congresses.
Greece > History > To 146 B.C. > Congresses.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Summary:"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.
Physical Description:ix, 140 pages ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-132) and indexes.
ISBN:0826216676 (hard cover : alk. paper)