The Cities of the Plain: Urbanism in Ancient Western Thessaly Rnnlund Robin
The Cities of the Plain: Urbanism in Ancient Western Thessaly Rnnlund Robin This book explores urbanism in Antiquity from an archaeological perspective, focusing on the area of western Thessaly in…
Specifikacia The Cities of the Plain: Urbanism in Ancient Western Thessaly Rnnlund Robin
The Cities of the Plain: Urbanism in Ancient Western Thessaly Rnnlund Robin
This book explores urbanism in Antiquity from an archaeological perspective, focusing on the area of western Thessaly in central Greece. These cities appear to have been planned and organised from the onset, with regular street-grids, fortification systems and water supply works, but were generally short-lived, typically existing for only five-six generations. Presenting all the available evidence for ancient urban sites in the region, the study outlines and discusses the origins, development, and decline of urbanism in the area.The archaeological evidence shows that urban sites in western Thessaly developed from the mid-4th century BCE, with at least 25 identified contemporaneous cities spread over the area.
Most of the sites were completely or nearly completely abandoned as settlements in the early 2nd century BCE, often with evidence of violent destruction, and only a