Construire la cité. Essai de sociologie historique sur les communautés de l'archaïsme grec. Collections – Expositions department

department

at the request of his friend Grimm

A truly ephemeral key moment in the history of art

Several years before Marco Polo

the maritime hegemony that was the object of so much rivalry between the Greek cities

Construire la cité. Essai de sociologie historique sur les communautés de l'archaïsme grec. Collections – Expositions departmentFirmly equating the polis with a community of individuals, the book aims to rethink the history of the pre classical Greek city by focusing on the social and political mechanisms at work in the constitution and maintenance of civic solidarity. Since Fustel de Coulanges's The Ancient City (1864), the Greek city has given rise to multiple traditions of research. "It is men who make the city," noted Alcaeus and Thucydides. Firmly equating the polis with