Charles Gates, Andrew Goldman

Ancient Cities (eBook, ePUB)

The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece, and Rome

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003849391
• Artikelnr.: 69854379

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.