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This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated third edition of
Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman worlds from an archaeological perspective.
List of contents
Introduction; PART 1: Cities of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age; 1. Neolithic Towns and Villages in the Near East; 2. Early Sumerian Cities; 3. Mesopotamian Cities in the Late Third and Second Millennia BCE; 4. Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization; 5. Egypt of the Pyramids; 6. Egyptian Cities, Temples, and Tombs of the Second Millennium BCE; 7. Aegean Bronze Age Towns and Cities; 8. Anatolian Bronze Age Cities: Troy and Hattusa; 9. Cypriots, Canaanites, and Levantine Trading Cities of the Late Bronze Age; 10. Near Eastern Cities in the Iron Age; 11. Phoenician and Punic Cities; PART 2: Greek Cities; 12. Early Greek City-States of the Iron Age (Eleventh-Seventh Centuries BCE); 13. Archaic Greek Cities, I: The Doric and Ionic Orders of Greek Architecture, and East Greek Cities to the Ionian Revolt; 14. Archaic Greek Cities, II: Athens and Sparta; 15. Greek Sanctuaries: Delphi and Olympia; 16. Athens in the Fifth Century BCE; 17. Greek Cities and Sanctuaries in the Late Classical Period; 18. Hellenistic Cities; PART 3: Cities of Ancient Italy and the Roman Empire; 19. Greek Cities of Magna Graecia; 20. Etruscan Cities; 21. Rome: From its Origins to its Expansion; 22. Rome during the Late Republic; 23. Rome in the Age of Augustus; 24. Italy Outside the Capital: Pompeii and Ostia; 25. Rome After Augustus: Imperial Patronage and Architectural Revolution; 26. Roman Provincial Cities; 27. Late Antique Transformations and the End of the Ancient City.
About the author
Charles Gates has recently retired as Senior Lecturer of archaeology and art history at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. A classical archaeologist with a particular interest in the Aegean Bronze Age and early Greek archaeology, he is now taking part in the preparation of the final reports of the excavations at Kinet Höyük (Turkey), a Bronze and Iron Age port city in the northeast corner of the Mediterranean.
Andrew Goldman is Professor of ancient history at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington. A specialist in Roman archaeology, he is preparing a monograph about Gordion (central Turkey) during the Roman Empire.
Summary
This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated third edition of Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman worlds from an archaeological perspective.
