City And Country In The Ancient World
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Author |
: John Rich |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2003-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134891283 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134891288 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis City and Country in the Ancient World by : John Rich
This volume of papers by influential historians and archaeologists explores the city-country relationship in the ancient Greco-Roman world and its impact on social, political, economic and cultural conditions in classical antiquity.
Author |
: Arjan Zuiderhoek |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521198356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521198356 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ancient City by : Arjan Zuiderhoek
This book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics.
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: |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0203726944 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780203726945 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis City and Country in the Ancient World by :
Author |
: Theodore Alois Buckley |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 1852 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0022396415 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Cities of the Ancient World, in Their Glory and Their Desolation ... With Illustrations by : Theodore Alois Buckley
Author |
: John Julius Norwich |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2022-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780500293409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0500293406 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cities that Shaped the Ancient World by : John Julius Norwich
John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations—and which in turn have shaped our own. The cities of the ancient world built the foundations for modern urban life, their innovations in architecture and politics essential to cities as we know them today. But what was it like to live in Babylon, Carthage, or Teotihuacan? From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the spectacular urban monuments of the Maya in Central America, the cities explored in Cities That Shaped the Ancient World represent almost three millennia of human history. Not only do they illustrate the highest achievement of the cultures that built them, but they also help us understand the rise and fall of these ancient peoples. In this new compact paperback, eminent historians and archaeologists with first-hand knowledge of each site give voice to these silent ruins, bringing them to life as the teeming, state-of-the-art metropolises they once were.
Author |
: Dean Saitta |
Publisher |
: Zed Books Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2020-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786994127 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786994127 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Intercultural Urbanism by : Dean Saitta
Cities today are paradoxical. They are engines of innovation and opportunity, but they are also plagued by significant income inequality and segregation by ethnicity, race, and class. These inequalities and segregations are often reinforced by the urban built environment: the planning of space and the design of architecture. This condition threatens attainment of wider social and economic prosperity. In this innovative new study, Dean Saitta explores questions of urban sustainability by taking an intercultural, trans-historical approach to city planning. Saitta uses a largely untapped body of knowledge—the archaeology of cities in the ancient world—to generate ideas about how public space, housing, and civic architecture might be better designed to promote inclusion and community, while also making our cities more environmentally sustainable. By integrating this knowledge with knowledge generated by evolutionary studies and urban ethnography (including a detailed look at Denver, Colorado, one of America’s most desirable and fastest growing ‘destination cities’ but one that is also experiencing significant spatial segregation and gentrification), Saitta’s book offers an invaluable new perspective for urban studies scholars and urban planning professionals.”
Author |
: Greg Woolf |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 512 |
Release |
: 2020-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190618568 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190618566 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Death of Ancient Cities by : Greg Woolf
The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment The growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our urban history, but it is not the first. Three thousand years ago most of the Mediterranean basin was a world of villages; a world without money or writing, without temples for the gods or palaces for the mighty. Over the centuries that followed, however, cities appeared in many places around the Inland Sea, built by Greeks and Romans, and also by Etruscans and Phoenicians, Tartessians and Lycians, and many others. Most were tiny by modern standards, but they were the building blocks of all the states and empires of antiquity. The greatest--Athens and Corinth, Syracuse and Marseilles, Alexandria and Ephesus, Persepolis and Carthage, Rome and Byzantium--became the powerhouses of successive ancient societies, not just political centers but also the places where ancient art and literatures were created and accumulated. And then, half way through the first millennium, most withered away, leaving behind ruins that have fascinated so many who came after. Based on the most recent historical and archaeological evidence, The Life and Death of Ancient Cities provides a sweeping narrative of one of the world's first great urban experiments, from Bronze Age origins to the demise of cities in late antiquity. Greg Woolf chronicles the history of the ancient Mediterranean city, against the background of wider patterns of human evolution, and of the unforgiving environment in which they were built. Richly illustrated, the book vividly brings to life the abandoned remains of our ancient urban ancestors and serves as a stark reminder of the fragility of even the mightiest of cities.
Author |
: Ralph Rosen |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 397 |
Release |
: 2017-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789047409182 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9047409183 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity by : Ralph Rosen
The third in a series that explores cultural and ethical values in Classical antiquity, this volume examines the dichotomy between 'city' and 'country' in ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Fourteen papers address a variety of topics on this theme, and include a variety of methodological approaches—archaeological, iconographic, literary and philosophical. The book demonstrates that, despite a common rhetoric of polarity in antiquity that tended to construct city and countryside as very distinct, oppositional categories, there was far less consistency (and far more nuance) about the ideologies felt to inhere in each.
Author |
: Charles Gates |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 505 |
Release |
: 2011-03-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136823282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113682328X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Cities by : Charles Gates
Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered from archaeological excavations. Urban form is the focus: the physical appearance and overall plans of the cities, their architecture and natural topography, and the cultural and historical contexts in which they flourished. Attention is also paid to non-urban features such as religious sanctuaries and burial grounds, places and institutions that were a familiar part of the city dweller's experience. Objects or artifacts that represented the essential furnishings of everyday life are discussed, such as pottery, sculpture, wall paintings, mosaics and coins. Ancient Cities is unusual in presenting this wide range of Old World cultures in such comprehensive detail, giving equal weight to the Preclassical and Classical periods, and in showing the links between these ancient cultures. User-friendly features include: use of clear and accessible language, assuming no previous background knowledge lavishly illustrated with over 300 line drawings, maps, and photos historical summaries, further reading arranged by topic, plus a consolidated bibliography and comprehensive index new to the second edition: a companion website with an interactive timeline, chapter summaries, study questions, illustrations and a glossary of archaeological and historical terms. Visit the website at https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780415498647/ In this second edition, Charles Gates has comprehensively revised and updated his original text, and Neslihan Yılmaz has reworked her acclaimed illustrations. Readers and lecturers will be delighted to see a new chapter on Phoenician cities in the first millennium BC, and new sections on Göbekli Tepe, the sensational Neolithic sanctuary; Sinope, a Greek city on the Black Sea coast; and cities of the western Roman Empire. With its comprehensive presentation of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cities, its rich collection of illustrations, and its new companion website, Ancient Cities will remain an essential textbook for university and high school students across a wide range of archaeology, ancient history, and ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and classical studies courses.
Author |
: Ian Morris |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521387388 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521387385 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Burial and Ancient Society by : Ian Morris
This study of the changing relationships between burial rituals and social structure in Early Iron Age Greece will be required reading for all archaeologists working with burial evidence, in whatever period. This book differs from many topical studies of state formation in that unique and particular developments are given as much weight as those factors which are common to all early states. The ancient literary evidence and the relevant historical and anthropological comparisons are extensively drawn on in an attempt to explain the transition to the city-state, a development which was to have decisive effects for the subsequent development of European society.