Life and Death of Ancient Cities - A Natural History

List of contents

• List of Illustrations


• Preface


• Acknowledgements
  


• PART 1: AN URBAN ANIMAL


• 1: To the City


• 2: Urban Apes


• 3: Settling Down


• 4: Uruk


• 5: First Cities


• 6: Cities of Bronze
  


• PART 11: AN URBAN MEDITERRANEAN


• 7: The First Mediterranean Cities


• 8: Mariners and Chieftains


• 9: Western Pioneers


• 10: A Greek Lake


• 11: Networking the Mediterranean


• 12: Cities, States, and Kings
  


• PART 111: IMPERIAL URBANISMS


• 13: City and Empire


• 14: Europe Awakes


• 15: Cities of Marble


• 16: Founding New Cities


• 17: Ruling Through Cities


• 18: The Ecology of Roman Urbanism
  


• PART IV: DE-URBANIZATION


• 19: The Megalopoleis


• 20: Postclassical
  


• Afterword


• Further Reading


• Timeline


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Greg Woolf has been Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies since January 2015 before which he was Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews (since 1998) and held fellowships at various Cambridge and Oxford Colleges. He has degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge, is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Max Weber College, Erfurt and he is a member of the Academia Europaea. He has held visiting appointments in Brasil, France, Germany, Italy and Spain and lectured around the world. He has published on Roman imperialism, on ancient literacy, on libraries, encyclopaedias and ancient ethnography and more recently on religious history and the archaeology of the Roman world.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Woolf, Greg (Director Woolf, Woolf Greg
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.08.2022
• EAN: 9780199664740
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966474-0
• No. of pages: 528
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; prehistory, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Civilization, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Byzantine Empire, CE period up to c 1500, Social & cultural anthropology, Ancient World, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Ancient History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Human Geography, Prehistoric archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology