John Rich / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (eds.)

City and Country in the Ancient World

Herausgeber: Rich, John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world of citie, in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre. This volume of papers written by influential archaeologists and historians seeks to bring together the two disciplines in exploring the city-country relationship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780415082235
• ISBN-10: 0415082234
• Artikelnr.: 21593836

Autorenporträt

John Rich is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Nottingham. Archaeology in the University of Cambridge. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction1. Archaeology and the study of the Greek city 2. The
early polis as city and state 3. Modelling settlement structures in Ancient
Greece: new approaches to the polis 4. Surveys, cities and synoecism 5.
Pride and prejudice, sense and subsistence: exchange and society in the
Greek city 6. Settlement, city and elite in Samnium and Lycia 7. Roman
towns and their territories: an archaeological perspective 8. Towns and
territories in Southern Etruria 9. City, territory and taxation 10. Elites
and trade in the Roman town 11. Spatial organisation and social change in
Roman towns