Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
- Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Athens: An Introduction
- 1 #Leagros: An Athenian Life
- Part I The Urban Fabric
- 2 Asty and Chora: City and Countryside
- 3 The Emergence of the Polis
- 4 City Streets, Walls, and Gates
- 5 The Akropolis
- 6 The Agora: Public Life and Administration
- 7 Athenian Inscriptions
- 8 Water and Water Management
- 9 Housing and the Household
- 10 The Archaic and Classical Cemeteries
- Part II Inhabitants
- Part III Business/Commerce
- Part IV Culture and Sport
- Part V Politics
- Reception
- Index
- References
2 - Asty and Chora: City and Countryside
from Part I - The Urban Fabric
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2021
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
- Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Athens: An Introduction
- 1 #Leagros: An Athenian Life
- Part I The Urban Fabric
- 2 Asty and Chora: City and Countryside
- 3 The Emergence of the Polis
- 4 City Streets, Walls, and Gates
- 5 The Akropolis
- 6 The Agora: Public Life and Administration
- 7 Athenian Inscriptions
- 8 Water and Water Management
- 9 Housing and the Household
- 10 The Archaic and Classical Cemeteries
- Part II Inhabitants
- Part III Business/Commerce
- Part IV Culture and Sport
- Part V Politics
- Reception
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter explores the complex relations between the city of Athens (asty) and its large territory (chora), which formed the two essential entities of the Greek polis.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens , pp. 21 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
For a well-illustrated overview of the archaeology of Attika, see Travlos 1988. On the political and territorial organization of Attika (demes, trittyes, tribes), the classic work remains that of Traill 1975 and 1986 and Whitehead 1986. On specific aspects of deme organization, settlement, and land-holding, as well as public and sacred land ownership, see Osborne 1985 and Papazarkadas 2011. Comprehensive studies of individual demes are Lohmann 1993 (Atene), Petrakos 1999 (Rhamnous), Goette 2000 (Sounion), and Kellogg 2013 (Acharnai). On the deme theaters, see Paga 2010. On the religious landscape of Attika, see Parker 1987 and 1996, Paga 2016, and Shear 2016. On the rural landscape, see Lohmann 1992, 1993, and 1995, Jones 2004, and Oliver 2006 and 2007. For survey work, see Lohmann 1993 and Knodell et al. 2017. On Attic roads, see Lohmann 2002, Korres 2009, and Fachard and Pirisino 2015. Many aspects of the Attic economy are treated by Bresson 2016; for a general overview, see Fachard and Bresson forthcoming. On rural fortifications and the defense of Attika’s borderlands, see Ober 1985, Oliver 2007, Munn 2010, and Fachard 2017.