The Life and Death of Ancient Cities - A Natural History

Informationen zum Autor Greg Woolf is the Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, at the University of London and author of Rome: An Empire's Story and Et Tu Bruté The Murder of Caesar and Political Assassination. Klappentext This book tells the story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological evidence, Greg Woolf provides a rich history of the ancient Mediterranean city, and attempts to solve the puzzles about its rapid emergence and equally rapid decline, making comparisons along the way with contemporary urban experience.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Woolf
• Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780199946129
• ISBN: 978-0-19-994612-9
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Antike, Rom, Griechenland, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Civilization, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, History - General History