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. (Verlagstext)
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
List ofIllustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xvii
PART I: AN URBAN ANIMAL
1. To the City 3
2. Urban Apes 14
3. Settling Down 39
4. Uruk 57
5. First Cities 77
6. Cities ofBronze 95
PART II: AN URBAN MEDITERRANEAN
7. The First Mediterranean Cities 115
8. Mariners and Chieftains 141
9. Western Pioneers 162
10. A Greek Lake 188
11. Networking the Mediterranean 209
12. Cities, States, and Kings 228
PART III: IMPERIAL URBANISMS
13. City and Empire 247
14. Europe Awakes 266
15. Cities ofMarble 282
16. Founding New Cities 311
17. RulingThrough Cities 330
18. The Ecology ofRoman Urbanism 353viii CONTENTS
PART IV: DE-URBANIZATION
19. The Megalopoleis 379
20. Postclassical 404
Afterword 419
Further Reading 423
Timeline 427
Notes 431
Bibliography 453
Index 495
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Greg Woolf
Jahr:
2020
Verlag:
Oxford, Oxford University Press
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ISBN:
978-0-19-966473-3
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0-19-966473-0
Beschreibung:
xviii, 499 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten
Schlagwörter:
Antike, Geschichte, Stadt, Antike / Mittelmeerraum, Klassisches Altertum, Landesgeschichte, Mittelmeerraum / Antike, Ortsgeschichte, Regionalgeschichte, Stadtgebiet <Stadt>, Städte, Zeitgeschichte
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Englisch
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [453]-493
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