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Author Crouch, Dora P., author

Title Geology and settlement : Greco-Roman patterns / Dora P. Crouch
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Part I. Background -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History, Geology, Engineering, and Archaeology -- Part II. Case Studies -- 3. Western Grego-Roman Cities -- Agrigento -- Morgantina -- Selinus -- Syracuse -- 4. Central Greco-Roman Cities -- Argos -- Corinth Delphi -- 5. Eastern Grego-Roman Cities -- Miletus -- Priene -- Ephesus -- Part III. Findings and Reflections -- 6. Comparisons of Cities -- 7. General Conclusions -- 8. Physical and Intellectual Issues -- Appendix A. Chronologies -- Appendix B. Glossary of Technical Terms
Summary This study explains the Greco - Roman urban form as it relates to the geological basis at selected sites in the Mediterranean basin. Each of the sites - Argos, Delphi, Ephesus, and Syracuse among them - has manifested in its physical form the geology on which it stood and from which it was made
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-358) and index
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Subject Engineering geology -- Rome
Engineering geology -- Greece
City planning -- Rome
City planning -- Greece
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
City planning
Engineering geology
Greece
Rome (Empire)
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