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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      10 November 2016
      31 October 2016
      ISBN:
      9780511979224
      9780521198356
      9780521166010
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511979224
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 266 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.33kg, 236 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Archaeology, Archaeology
      Series:
      Key Themes in Ancient History
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Archaeology, Archaeology
    Series:
    Key Themes in Ancient History
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    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.

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    'This book is a thoughtful study of cities in the ancient world, arguing that the similarities between the Greek and Roman models far outweighed the differences.'

    Rupert Jackson Source: Classics for All

    '… this compact scholarly book will be useful to scholars of urbanism across many disciplines.'

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    • Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Ancient City as Concept and Reality
      pp 1-19
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