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The Ancient City / Arjan Zuiderhoek, Universiteit Gent, Belgium.
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Zuiderhoek, Arjan, 1976-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
xiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Classics Collection
DE86 .Z85 2017
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Subject(s)
Cities and towns
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Rome
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Cities and towns
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Greece
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Civilization, Classical
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Civilization, Ancient
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Greece
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History
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146 B.C.-323 A.D.
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Rome
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History
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Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.
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Key themes in ancient history
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Summary note
"Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the strong association in Western thought between urbanism, capitalism and modernity. In this book, Arjan Zuiderhoek provides a survey of the main issues at stake in these debates, as well as a sketch of the chief characteristics of Greek and Roman cities. He argues that the ancient Greco-Roman city was indeed a highly specific form of urbanism, but that this does not imply that the ancient city was somehow 'superior' or 'inferior' to forms of urbanism in other societies, just (interestingly) different. The book is aimed primarily at students of ancient history and general readers, but also at scholars working on urbanism in other periods and places"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-220) and index.
Contents
The ancient city as concept and reality
Origins, development and spread of cities in the ancient world
City and country
Urban landscape and environment
Politics and political institutions
Civic ritual and civic identity
Urban society: stratification and mobility
The urban economy
City-states and cities and states
The end of the ancient city?.
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ISBN
9780521198356 ((hardback))
0521198356 ((hardback))
9780521166010 ((paperback))
0521166012 ((paperback))
LCCN
2016011203
OCLC
938360231
Other standard number
40026618924
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