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-standing opinion that the majority of ancient Greeks lived a rural, subsistent life"--Provided by publisher. |
Contents
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II The Population of Walled Poleis | 35 |
III The Proportion of the Population Settled in the Hinterland | 64 |
IV The Carrying Capacity of the Ancient Greek Polis World | 77 |
Appendix 1 Some Test Cases | 93 |
Appendix 2 Population of the Greek Homeland versus the Population of Colonies and Hellenized Communities | 97 |
Appendix 3 Walled Poleis Organized according to Size of Territory | 100 |
Appendix 4 Walled Poleis Geographically Organized | 107 |
Appendix 5 The Population of Walled Poleis in Epeiros and Makedonia | 117 |
Appendix 6 Corvisiers Calculation of the Urban Population of Thessaly | 119 |
Bibliography | 121 |
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adult male citizens Akragas ancient Boiotia ancient Greeks archaic area di rispetto Argolid army figures assess assume assumption Athens Attika average Beloch Bintliff calculations carrying capacity Chersonesos citizen population classical period Corvisier and Suder covered CPCInv demography Dystos Epeiros and Makedonia evidence Fischer-Hansen Forsén Foxhall grain Greece Greek homeland Greek polis habitation area Halieis Hansen hectares Hellenistic Himera hinterland Hoepfner and Schwandner hoplites household houses per hectare inside the walls intramural area intramural space islands Kassopa large poleis mainland Greece Makedonia Mantinea maximum Megara Methana midsize poleis minimum Muggia nineteenth century A.D. number of persons number of poleis Olynthos Orchomenos percent persons per hectare Phokis phoros poleis population figures population of Greece Priene regions rural population Ruschenbusch Sallares Schwandner 1994 shotgun method slaves small poleis square kilometers square meters survey Tegea territory Thessaly Thrace Thuc tion total number total population town Troad urban center urban population whereas