Cities of the Classical World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities of the Classical World write by Colin McEvedy. This book was released on 2011-11-03. Cities of the Classical World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Alexandria to York, this unique illustrated guide allows us to see the great centres of classical civilization afresh. The key feature of Cities of the Classical World is 120 specially drawn maps tracing each city's thoroughfares and defences, monuments and places of worship. Every map is to the same scale, allowing readers for the first time to appreciate visually the relative sizes of Babylon and Paris, London and Constantinople. There is also a clear, incisive commentary on each city's development, strategic importance, rulers and ordinary inhabitants. This compelling and elegant atlas opens a new window on to the ancient world, and will transform the way we see it.
The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World
The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World write by Sylvian Fachard. This book was released on 2021-09-30. The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Trojan War to the sack of Rome, from the fall of Constantinople to the bombings of World War II and the recent devastation of Syrian towns, the destruction of cities and the slaughter of civilian populations are among the most dramatic events in world history. But how reliable are literary sources for these events? Did ancient authors exaggerate the scale of destruction to create sensational narratives? This volume reassesses the impact of physical destruction on ancient Greek cities and its demographic and economic implications. Addressing methodological issues of interpreting the archaeological evidence for destructions, the volume examines the evidence for the destruction, survival, and recovery of Greek cities. The studies, written by an international group of specialists in archaeology, ancient history, and numismatic, range from Sicily to Asia Minor and Aegean Thrace, and include Athens, Corinth, and Eretria. They highlight the resilience of ancient populations and the recovery of cities in the long term.
The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World
The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World write by Claudia Rapp. This book was released on 2014-04-14. The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In its various incarnations, the Roman Empire survived until 1918, when the last two rulers to bear the title "Caesar" (Kaiser Wilhelm in Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia) fell from power. This volume contains the thinking of an international team of twelve scholars who analyze two of the most important changes in political and religious identity brought about by that empire: a change from the Greek kinship- and polis-based system to the territorial system of imperial Rome, and the development of a universal religious consciousness that lasted from the adoption of Christianity in the fourth century to the development of the nation-state in modern times.
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Life and Death of Ancient Cities write by Greg Woolf. This book was released on 2020-04-08. The Life and Death of Ancient Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment The growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our urban history, but it is not the first. Three thousand years ago most of the Mediterranean basin was a world of villages; a world without money or writing, without temples for the gods or palaces for the mighty. Over the centuries that followed, however, cities appeared in many places around the Inland Sea, built by Greeks and Romans, and also by Etruscans and Phoenicians, Tartessians and Lycians, and many others. Most were tiny by modern standards, but they were the building blocks of all the states and empires of antiquity. The greatest--Athens and Corinth, Syracuse and Marseilles, Alexandria and Ephesus, Persepolis and Carthage, Rome and Byzantium--became the powerhouses of successive ancient societies, not just political centers but also the places where ancient art and literatures were created and accumulated. And then, half way through the first millennium, most withered away, leaving behind ruins that have fascinated so many who came after. Based on the most recent historical and archaeological evidence, The Life and Death of Ancient Cities provides a sweeping narrative of one of the world's first great urban experiments, from Bronze Age origins to the demise of cities in late antiquity. Greg Woolf chronicles the history of the ancient Mediterranean city, against the background of wider patterns of human evolution, and of the unforgiving environment in which they were built. Richly illustrated, the book vividly brings to life the abandoned remains of our ancient urban ancestors and serves as a stark reminder of the fragility of even the mightiest of cities.
The Ancient City
The Ancient City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ancient City write by Arjan Zuiderhoek. This book was released on 2017. The Ancient City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics.
