The imaginary polis : symposium, January 7-10, 2004 - Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab; Hansen, Mogens Herman, 1940- (Copenhagen : Det Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab, 2005)
The Homeric polis / Johannes Haubold -- Mephelokokkygia and Gynaikopolis : Aristophanes' dream cities / Alan H. Sommerstein -- L'irréalisable vérité de la république platonicienne : remarques sur le statut et sur le contenu de la politeia de la République / Jean-François Pradeau -- La cité des Magnètes dans les Lois de Platon / Marcel Piérart -- L'utopie magnète : réflexions sur les Lois de Platon / Jean-Marie Bergrand -- Aristotle's egalitarian utopia : the polis kat' euchēn / Roderick T. Long -- A pedestrian synopsis of Aristotle's best polis in Pol. 7-8 / Mogens Herman Hansen -- Zeno and the art of polis maintenance / Oswyn Murray -- The imaginary Spartan politeia / Stephen Hodkinson -- Imagining Crete / Paula Perlman -- Little boxes on the hillside : Greek town planning, Hippodamos and polis ideology / Graham Shipley.
Selection of papers presented at a symposium attended by seventeen scholars with members of the Copenhagen Polis Centre. Papers were revised by the authors prior to publication. Also included are responses of the participants to the papers and one invited paper by a contributor who did not attend the symposium.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Articles in English or French. Some words in Greek characters appear in texts.
Keywords: Cities and towns, Ancient -- Philosophy -- Greece -- Congresses; City-states -- Philosophy -- Greece -- Congresses; Utopias in literature -- Congresses; Utopias -- Greece -- Congresses; Kopenhagen (2004).