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The Ancient City
Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the strong association in Western thought between urbanism, capitalism and modernity. In this book, Arjan Zuiderhoek provides a survey of the main issues at stake in these debates, as well as a sketch of the chief characteristics of Greek and Roman cities. He argues that the ancient Greco-Roman city was indeed a highly specific form of urbanism but that this does not imply that the ancient city was somehow superior or inferior to forms of urbanism in other societies, just (interestingly) different. The book is aimed primarily at students of ancient history and general readers, but also at scholars working on urbanism in other periods and places.
Arjan Zuiderhoek is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the Department of History, Ghent University. He is author of The Politics of Munificence in the Roman Empire: Citizens, Elites and Benefactors in Asia Minor (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and editor, with Paul Erdkamp and Koenraad Verboven, of Ownership and Exploitation of Land and Natural Resources in the Roman World (2015).
P. A. Cartledge
Clare College, Cambridge
P. D. A. Garnsey
Jesus College, Cambridge
Key Themes in Ancient History aims to provide readable, informed and original studies of various basic topics, designed in the first instance for students and teachers of Classics and Ancient History, but also for those engaged in related disciplines. Each volume is devoted to a general theme in Greek, Roman, or where appropriate, Graeco-Roman history, or to some salient aspect or aspects of it. Besides indicating the state of current research in the relevant area, authors seek to show how the theme is significant for our own as well as ancient culture and society. By providing books for courses that are oriented around themes it is hoped to encourage and stimulate promising new developments in teaching and research in ancient history.
The Ancient City
Arjan Zuiderhoek
Universiteit Gent, Belgium
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Arjan Zuiderhoek 2017
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First published 2017
Printed in the United Kingdom by Clays, St Ives plc
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Names: Zuiderhoek, Arjan, 1976- author.
Title: The ancient city / Arjan Zuiderhoek.
Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016. | Series: Key themes in ancient history
Identifiers: LCCN 2016011203 | ISBN 9780521198356 (Hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Cities and townsRome. | Cities and townsGreece. | Civilization, Classical. | GreeceHistory146 B.C.-323 A.D. | RomeHistoryEmpire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. | BISAC: HISTORY / Ancient / General.
Classification: LCC DE86 .Z85 2016 | DDC 307.760938dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016011203
ISBN 978-0-521-19835-6 Hardback
ISBN 978-0-521-16601-0 Paperback
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For Irene, Maarten and Yrsa
Source: A. von Gerkan, Griechische Stdteanlagen. Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung des Stdtebaues im Altertum 1924 Walter de Gruyter, Abb. 6. Reprinted with permission of Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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