Ancient cities : the archaeology of urban life in the ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece, and Rome /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gates, Charles
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cities of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. Neolithic towns and villages in the Near East
  • Early Sumerian cities
  • Mesopotamian cities in the late third and second millennia BC
  • Cities of the Indus Valley civilization
  • Egypt of the pyramids
  • Egyptian cities, temples, and tombs of the second millennium BC
  • Aegean Bronze Age towns and cities
  • Anatolian Bronze age cities: Troy and Hattusa
  • Cypriots, Canaanites, and Levantine trading cities of the late Bronze Age
  • Near eastern cities in the Iron Age
  • Phoenician and punic cities
  • Greek cities. Early Greek city-states of the Iron Age (eleventh to seventh centuries BC)
  • Archaic Greek Cities, I: the Doric and Ionic orders of Greek architecture, and East Greek cities to the Ionian revolt
  • Archaic Greek cities, II: Sparta and Athens
  • Greek sanctuaries: Delphi and Olympia
  • Athens in the fifth century BC
  • Greek cities and sanctuaries in the late classical period
  • Hellenistic cities
  • Cities of Ancient Italy and the Roman Empire. Greek and Etruscan cities in Italy
  • Rome from its origins to the end of the republic
  • Rome in the age of Augustus
  • Italy outside the Capital: Pompeii and Ostia
  • Rome from Nero to Hadrian: imperial patronage and architectural revolution
  • Roman provincial cities
  • Late antique transformations: Rome, Jerusalem, and Constantinople in the Age of Constantine.