The development of the polis in archaic Greece / edited by Lynette G. Mitchell and P.J. Rhodes.

First published in 1997. First issued in paperback 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.

Introduction / P.J. Rhodes -- The Copenhagen inventory of poleis and the lex hafniensis de civitate / Mogens Herman Hansen -- The 'origins of the Greek polis' : where should we be looking? / John K Davies -- The relations of power in the pre-state and early state polities / Walter Donlan -- Soldiers, citizens, and the evolution of the early Greek polis / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- Lopping off the heads? Tyrants, politics and the polis / John Salmon -- Law and laws : how do we join up the dots? / Robin Osborne -- The development of Spartan society and institutions in the Archaic period / Stephen Hodkinson -- A new solution to the riddle of the Seisachtheia / Edward M. Harris -- A view from the top : evaluating the Solonian property classes / Lin Foxhall -- New wine in old wineskins: Solon, arete and the agathos / Lynette G. Mitchell -- Evaluating the citizen in Archaic Greek lyric, elegy and inscribed epigram / George I.C. Robertson -- Themis : religion and order in the Archaic polis / Emma J. Stafford-- The archaeology of sanctuaries in Early Iron Age and Archaic ethne : a preliminary view / Catherine Morgan -- The nature of Greek overseas settlements in the Archaic period : emporion or apoikia? / John-Paul Wilson -- Servius Tullius, Cleisthenes and the emergence of the polis in Central Italy / Christopher Smith.