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- Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
- Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- General Introduction
- Part I Canon
- Part II Space
- Part III Scale
- Chapter 5 A Quantitative Model of Ancient Literary Culture
- Chapter 6 Scale in Action
- Coda to the Book
- Bibliography
- Index
Coda to the Book
from Part III - Scale
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2020
- Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
- Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- General Introduction
- Part I Canon
- Part II Space
- Part III Scale
- Chapter 5 A Quantitative Model of Ancient Literary Culture
- Chapter 6 Scale in Action
- Coda to the Book
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
To repeat the question with which we started: we understand the distinctive nature of the Greek legacy, as a consequence of the democratic polis. And yet, democracy, in antiquity itself, was no more than an episode in a mostly monarchic Mediterranean. How to reconcile these two?
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- Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture , pp. 800 - 805Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020