Ath. Pol. |
Athenaion Politeia (“The Constitution of Athens”). Two literary works by this title have come down to us, one attributed to Aristotle (probably by one of his students) and the other by an anonymous author of the later fifth century BCE, alluded to as Pseudo-Xenophon and nicknamed “The Old Oligarch” by twentieth century classical scholars. |
BCE |
Before common era. |
CAH |
Cambridge Ancient History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 2nd edition (vols. 3–14) or 3rd edition (vols. 1–2), 1970–2005. |
CE |
Common era. |
cm |
centimeter. 1 cm = 0.39 inches. |
dr |
drachma—basic unit of Greek silver coinage. Attic drachma = 4.3 grams of silver. Approximately one day’s wage for an unskilled laborer in late fifth century BCE Athens. |
FGrH |
Fragments of Greek Historians, English edition, edited by Ian Worthington (Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill), multiple volumes. |
EIA |
Early Iron Age, in the Greek world, ca. 1100–750 BCE. |
GDI |
Gross domestic income. |
GDP |
Gross domestic product. |
Inventory |
Hansen, Mogens Herman, and Thomas Heine Nielsen. 2004. An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. i# (e.g., i361) refers to the inventory number of a polis listed in the Inventory (i361 = Athens). |
km |
kilometer. 1 km = 0.62 miles. 1 km2 = 0.39 square miles, or 247 acres. |
L |
liter. 1 L = 0.25 U.S. gallons, 0.22 imperial gallons. |
LBA |
Late Bronze Age, in Greek world, ca. 1600–1200 BCE. |
m |
meter. 1 m = 3.28 feet. 1 m2 = 10.7 square feet, or 1.2 square yards. |
T |
Talent: Basic unit for measuring large amounts of money in the Greek world. 6,000 drachmas. 1 Attic talent = ca. 25.725 kilograms of silver. Very approximately, a lifetime’s income for an Athenian laborer in the fifth century BCE. |
MAP 1 The 45 regions of the Greek world.
Regions (indicated by numbers on the map) are per order in the Inventory, based on 907 of 1,035 total city-states with known (or plausibly inferred) locations. Polis numbers are per the Inventory. See further appendix I. Known or plausibly hypothesized locations of individual poleis: http://polis.stanford.edu/. Most but not all of the poleis listed in the Inventory were in existence in the later fourth century BCE; some had, however, gone out of existence before that time. 128 of 1,035 poleis in the Inventory have not been located with enough confidence for mapping. Note that region 1 is off the map to the left—for locations of region 1 poleis, see map 3.
