Ancient City Zuiderhoek Arjan
Ancient City Zuiderhoek Arjan Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the strong association in…
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Ancient City Zuiderhoek Arjan
Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. 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. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas.
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. 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. 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.
Ancient City Zuiderhoek Arjan