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The Problems of Polis Identity in the Early Byzantine City

Student: Dynin Mikhail

Supervisor: Andrey Vinogradov

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

At the junction of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, significant changes took place in the life of the cities of the Byzantine Empire: there was a reduction in the population of most cities, the decline and death of civil institutions, urban culture and, often, the self-identification of urban residents. The work explores polis identity in an early Byzantine city. The author identifies the markers of polis self-consciousness and analyzes specific cases (Athens, Thessaloniki, Kherson), for which the factors of the disappearance of polis self-consciousness in each case are identified.

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