The Ancient City

by Arjan Zuiderhoek

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521166012
• ISBN13: 9780521166010
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"