Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity - Remains and Representations of the Ancient City

Urban Dreams and Realities is a collection of articles on cities in ancient cultures, both their physical and conceptual aspects. A wide range of subjects and disciplinary perspectives are represented, especially the archaeology, epigraphy and literature of the Roman Empire.

About the author

Adam Kemezis is associate professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta and author of Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans (Cambridge, forthcoming) and several articles on Imperial Roman literature and history.

Contributors are: Ehud Ben Zvi, Christer Bruun, Raymond L. Capra, Fabio Colivicchi, Edward Dandrow, Megan Daniels, Owen M. Ewald, Tanya K. Henderson, Steven Hijmans, Adam M. Kemezis, Eric Kondratieff, Ralph J. Korner, Matthew Maher, Aloka Parasher-Sen, Darryl A. Phillips, Daniel Unruh, Emily Varto, LuAnn Wandsnider, Josef Wiesehöfer and Ian Douglas Wilson.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2014
• EAN: 9789004277359
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27735-9
• No. of pages: 548
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 241 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 930 g
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity