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Ancient Cities
| Author | : Charles Gates |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 457 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 113467662X |
Well illustrated with nearly 300 line drawings, maps and photographs, Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from an archaeological perspective, and in their cultural and historical contexts. Covering a huge area geographically and chronologically, it brings to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered by archaeological excavations from the Mediterranean basin and south-west Asia Examining both pre-Classical and Classical periods, this is an excellent introductory textbook for students of classical studies and archaeology alike.
Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East
| Author | : Ömür Harmanşah |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2013-03-18 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1107311187 |
This book investigates the founding and building of cities in the ancient Near East. The creation of new cities was imagined as an ideological project or a divine intervention in the political narratives and mythologies of Near Eastern cultures, often masking the complex processes behind the social production of urban space. During the Early Iron Age (c.1200–850 BCE), Assyrian and Syro-Hittite rulers developed a highly performative official discourse that revolved around constructing cities, cultivating landscapes, building watercourses, erecting monuments and initiating public festivals. This volume combs through archaeological, epigraphic, visual, architectural and environmental evidence to tell the story of a region from the perspective of its spatial practices, landscape history and architectural technologies. It argues that the cultural processes of the making of urban spaces shape collective memory and identity as well as sites of political performance and state spectacle.
Ancient Cities
| Author | : Charles Gates |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 824 |
| Release | : 2024-02-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1003849393 |
The third edition of Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on archaeological evidence. Urban form is the focus: the physical appearance and overall plans of cities, their architecture and natural topography, and the cultural and historical contexts in which they flourished. Attention is also paid to non-urban features such as religious sanctuaries and burial grounds, places and institutions that were a familiar part of the city dweller’s experience. Objects or artifacts that furnished everyday life are discussed, such as writing systems, pottery, sculpture, wall paintings, mosaics, and coins. Ancient Cities is unusual in presenting this wide range of Old World cultures in such comprehensive detail, giving equal weight to the Preclassical and Classical periods, and in showing the links between these ancient cultures. In this new edition, in which Andrew Goldman has joined Charles Gates in updating the volume, readers and lecturers will be delighted to see a major revision of the chapters on Greek cities in South Italy and Sicily, the Etruscans, the development of the capital city, Rome, during the Republic as well as the Empire, and the end of the ancient city. This new edition includes several new and updated user-friendly features, such as: Clear and accessible language, assuming no previous background knowledge Lavishly illustrated, with almost 350 line drawings, maps, and photographs, including new contributions from Neslihan Yılmaz Tekman adding to her already acclaimed illustrations Suggestions for further reading for each chapter A companion website with images, study guides, and an interactive timeline. With its comprehensive presentation of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cities, its rich collection of illustrations, and its companion website, Ancient Cities remains an essential textbook for university and high school students across a wide range of archaeology, ancient history, and ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Classical Studies courses.
Ancient Cities
| Author | : Charles Gates Gates |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2021-04-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
This book surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds, with a focus on their physical appearance, on urban form, and on their cultural and histori-cal contexts. Architecture is key: the buildings that marked ancient cities, streets, squares, andother spaces in between; the arrangement of these elements in a city plan; and their functionsin ancient societies. Our aim is to see how buildings and objects made by people long gonehelp us understand the urban environments created and lived in by our distant ancestors in theMediterranean basin and the Near East. Geographical conditions are also important; they arehighlighted throughout. In addition, through most of the centuries treated here written recordsgive invaluable information about people and their activities and concerns. The written sourcesare constantly called upon to illuminate ancient life. Archaeology as presented in this book is thusa discipline nourished by many specialties: art and architectural history, urbanism, anthropology, geography, history, philology and literary studies; Ancient Near Eastern studies; Biblical studies;Egyptology; and Greek and Roman studies. 502Pag
The Ancient Mesopotamian City
| Author | : Marc Van De Mieroop |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 1997-11-13 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0191588458 |
Urban history starts in ancient Mesopotamia. In this volume Marc Van De Mieroop examines the evolution of the very earliest cities which, for millennia, inspired the rest of the ancient world. The city determined every aspect of Mesopotamian civilization, and the political and social structure, economy, literature, and arts of Mesopotamian culture cannot be understood without acknowledging their urban background. - ;Urban history starts in ancient Mesopotamia: the earliest known cities developed there as the result of long indigenous processes, and, for millennia, the city determined every aspect of Mesopotamian civilization. Marc Van De Mieroop examines urban life in the historical period, investigating urban topography, the role of cities as centres of culture, their political and social structures, economy, literature, and the arts. He draws on material from the entirety of Mesopotamian history, from c. 3000 to 300 BC, and from both Babylonia and Assyria, arguing that the Mesopotamian city can be regarded as a prototype that inspired the rest of the ancient world and shared characteristics with the European cities of antiquity. -
Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East
| Author | : Dr Omur Harman Ah |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : Cities and towns |
| ISBN | : 9781107314498 |
This book investigates the practice of constructing cities in the ancient Near East, bringing together architecture and cultural history.
Ancient Cities
| Author | : CHARLES;GOLDMAN GATES (ANDREW.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024 |
| Genre | : Cities and towns, Ancient |
| ISBN | : 9780429278815 |
"The third edition of Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on archaeological evidence. Urban form is the focus: the physical appearance and overall plans of cities, their architecture and natural topography, and the cultural and historical contexts in which they flourished. Attention is also paid to non-urban features such as religious sanctuaries and burial grounds, places and institutions that were a familiar part of the city dweller's experience. Objects or artifacts that furnished everyday life are discussed, such as writing systems, pottery, sculpture, wall paintings, mosaics, and coins. Ancient Cities is unusual in presenting this wide range of Old World cultures in such comprehensive detail, giving equal weight to the Preclassical and Classical periods, and in showing the links between these ancient cultures. In this new edition, in which Andrew Goldman has joined Charles Gates in updating the volume, readers and lecturers will be delighted to see a major revision of the chapters on Greek cities in South Italy and Sicily, the Etruscans, the development of the capital city, Rome, during the Republic as well as the Empire, and the end of the ancient city. This new edition includes several new and updated user-friendly features, such as: Clear and accessible language, assuming no previous background knowledge. Lavishly illustrated, with almost 350 line drawings, maps, and photographs, including new contributions from Neslihan Yılmaz Tekman adding to her already acclaimed illustrations. Suggestions for further reading for each chapter. A companion website with images, study guides, and an interactive timeline. With its comprehensive presentation of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cities, its rich collection of illustrations, and its companion website, Ancient Cities remains an essential textbook for university and high school students across a wide range of archaeology, ancient history, and ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Classical Studies courses"--
The Fabric of Cities
| Author | : Natalie N. May |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2013-10-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004262342 |
The Fabric of Cities presents an interdisciplinary collection of articles on urbanism in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Rome, which focuses on the social dimension of cities' topographical features. The contributions of this book offer investigations of neighbourhoods, city gates, streets, temples and palaces drawing on textual and archaeological sources as well as art. The topics treated in this work encompass the diverse functions of public and marginal spaces in Mesopotamian cities and Rome, the role of agency in the development of Babylonian neighbourhoods, the relationship between public and private in Assyrian palaces, the connection between political strategies and temple building in Sumerian literary texts, and the communicative uses of language in Classical Greek texts to talk about urban space.
