Peter Hunt

Peter Hunt, Associate Professor

Department of Classics

University of Colorado

Supplement to Bryn Mawr Classical Review of Mogens Herman Hansen, The Shotgun Method: The Demography of the Ancient Greek City-State Culture

An Alternative Calculation of the Minimum Population of the ancient Greek City-State Culture

A) Category	B) Number of Cities with Estimated Territories	C) Number of Cities Added to B	D)Extrapolated Total Number of Cities (=B+C)	E) Average Urban Area per City in Hectares	F) Total Urban Area in Hectares (=DxE)	G) Population per Hectare (150 x proportion inhabited)	H) Total Urban Population (=FxG)	I) Ratio of Rural to Urban Population	J) Total Rural Population (=HxI)	K) Total Population (=H+J)
1	93	91	184	8	1472	75	110400	0.5	55200	165600
1/2	109	91	200	21	4200	75	315000	0.5	157500	472500
2	198	91	289	27	7803	75	585225	0.5	292612.5	877837.5
3	100	91	191	49	9359	75	701925	0.5	350962.5	1052887.5
4	69	0	69	103	7107	75	533025	1	533025	1066050
5	67	0	67	182	12194	50	609700	2	1219400	1829100
	636	364	1000		42135		2855275		2608700	5463975