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Title City and country in the ancient world / edited by John Rich and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 305 pages) : illustrations
Series Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society ; v. 2
Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society ; v. 2.
Contents Introduction -- Archaeology and the study of the Greek city -- The early polis as city and state -- Modelling settlement structures in Ancient Greece: new approaches to the polis -- Surveys, cities and synoecism -- Pride and prejudice, sense and subsistence: exchange and society in the Greek city -- Settlement, city and elite in Samnium and Lycia -- Roman towns and their territories: an archaeological perspective -- Towns and territories in Southern Etruria -- City, territory and taxation -- Elites and trade in the Roman town
Summary 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
Analysis Cities
Greece
Roman Empire
Cities
Greece
Roman Empire
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Cities and towns -- Rome.
Cities and towns, Ancient -- Greece
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
Cities and towns
Cities and towns, Ancient
Steden.
Klassieke oudheid.
Stad en platteland.
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Form Electronic book
Author Rich, John, 1944-
Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew.
LC no. 90008185
ISBN 0203418700
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