Description: A collection of 12 essays that explore the identity of Ancient Greece as a nation of very different communities. The volume begins with a study of the continuity of Greek culture and society as shown by the ease with which Greeks identified their local deities with those in Hesiod and Homer.
Review Quotes: "The Copenhagen vision of the polis is likely to remain the starting line for Greek constitutional studies for the foreseeable future. [...] I would like to tender a final note of appreciation, speaking as an American classical historian who is actively engaged in training both undergaduate and graduate Greek historians. Our Danish colleagues have given us a remarkable gift in the publications of the Copenhagen Polis Centre, the vast majority of which are in English and thus accessible to non-specialist humanists and social scientists. They have also furnished our students in training with a veritable tool-chest of instruments of our profession, especially fort he early stages of their disciplinary studies. Toward this purpose, Mogens Herman Hansen and his collaborators have achieved an enviably high standard of composition and editing in English..."--Thomas Figueira "Ancient West & East 8, 2009"