Inside the City in the Greek World

Laura Preston, Sara Owen

• Publisher: Oxbow Books
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781782973218
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Greek Ancient History
• Index: History

The publication of the papers presented in this volume marks an important step in the study of ancient cities. Despite having long been a focus of archaeological investigation and analysis, until relatively recently they have tended to be described rather than analysed. These eleven papers concentrate on analysing ancient urban centres from within, exploring some of the ways in which people lived in, perceived and modified their built environments. The papers span several time periods, from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic era as well as geographic locations from Italy to Beirut. The title of this volume thus incorporates two meanings of Greek: the territory of the modern nation-state and areas of the ancient world with cultural influences from the Aegean. The diversity of ancient urban forms is therefore fully recognised and celebrated.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Chapter 1: Introduction: Inside the City in the Greek World
• Chapter 2: Scaling Up: From Household to State in Bronze Age Crete
• Chapter 3: Social and Political Aspects of Urbanism in Middle Minoan I–II Crete: Towards a Regional Approach
• Chapter 4: Daidalos’ Designs and Ariadne’s Threads: Minoan Towns as Places of Interaction
• Chapter 5: Town Planning in Palatial Mycenae
• Chapter 6: Post-Palatial Urbanization: Some Lost Opportunities
• Chapter 7: The ‘Thracian’ Landscape of Archaic Thasos
• Chapter 8: The Classical Greek Cemetery: a Barometer of Citizenship?
• Chapter 9: The Urban Plan of Thourioi: Literary Sources and Archaeological Evidence for a Hippodamian City
• Chapter 10: Domestic Façades: a ‘Feature’ of the Urban Landscape of Greek Poleis?
• Chapter 11: Space and Identity in Hellenistic Beirut