City and Country in the Ancient World

List of contents

Preface Introduction1. Archaeology and the study of the Greek city 2. The early polis as city and state 3. Modelling settlement structures in Ancient Greece: new approaches to the polis 4. Surveys, cities and synoecism 5. Pride and prejudice, sense and subsistence: exchange and society in the Greek city 6. Settlement, city and elite in Samnium and Lycia 7. Roman towns and their territories: an archaeological perspective 8. Towns and territories in Southern Etruria 9. City, territory and taxation 10. Elites and trade in the Roman town 11. Spatial organisation and social change in Roman towns

About the author

John Rich is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Nottingham. Archaeology in the University of Cambridge. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: John Rich, John Wallace-Hadrill Rich
• Assisted by: John Rich (Editor), Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Editor), Wallace-Hadrill Andrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138411012
• ISBN: 978-1-138-41101-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE