7. Commensality and the “Citizen State”

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3 juillet 2017

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1. Introduction: varieties of states Ancient Greece has always posed problems for state formation theorists. States are supposed to enjoy a monopoly of legitimate force (armies, police), to have hierarchical settlement and social structures, and to show, visibly and materially, that they are states. Greek poleis appear to lack the tiered, administrative hierarchies of the palace states of the Near Eastern Bronze Age or the kingdoms of ancient Mesoamerica; they also seem to have been very, ver...

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