Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome

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Routledge, 21‏/03‏/2011 - 504 من الصفحات

Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered from archaeological excavations. Urban form is the focus: the physical appearance and overall plans of the 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 represented the essential furnishings of everyday life are discussed, such as 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.

User-friendly features include:

    • use of clear and accessible language, assuming no previous background knowledge
    • lavishly illustrated with over 300 line drawings, maps, and photos
    • historical summaries, further reading arranged by topic, plus a consolidated bibliography and comprehensive index
    • new to the second edition: a companion website with an interactive timeline, chapter summaries, study questions, illustrations and a glossary of archaeological and historical terms.

Visit the website at https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780415498647/

In this second edition, Charles Gates has comprehensively revised and updated his original text, and Neslihan Yılmaz has reworked her acclaimed illustrations. Readers and lecturers will be delighted to see a new chapter on Phoenician cities in the first millennium BC, and new sections on Göbekli Tepe, the sensational Neolithic sanctuary; Sinope, a Greek city on the Black Sea coast; and cities of the western Roman Empire. With its comprehensive presentation of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cities, its rich collection of illustrations, and its new companion website, Ancient Cities will remain 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.

 

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List of illustrations
Goals the approach defining the city determining dates
NEOLITHIC TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN THE NEAR EAST
EARLY SUMERIAN CITIES
MESOPOTAMIAN CITIES IN THE LATE THIRD AND SECOND MILLENNIA
CITIES OF THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION
The Akkadians
EGYPTIAN CITIES TEMPLES AND TOMBS OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM
SPARTA AND ATHENS
DELPHI AND OLYMPIA
ATHENS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY
GREEK CITIES AND SANCTUARIES IN THE LATE CLASSICAL PERIOD
HELLENISTIC CITIES
GREEK AND ETRUSCAN CITIES IN ITALY
ROME FROM ITS ORIGINS TO THE END OF THE REPUBLIC
ROME IN THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS

The Temple of Amun at Luxor
Akhenaten and Tell ElAmarna
The Valley of the Kings
Aftermath
AEGEAN BRONZE AGE TOWNS AND CITIES
TROY AND HATTUSA
CYPRIOTS CANAANITES AND LEVANTINE TRADING CITIES OF THE LATE
Ugarit Ras Shamra
The shipwrecks at Cape Gelidonya and Uluburun
PHOENICIAN AND PUNIC CITIES
EARLY GREEK CITYSTATES OF THE IRON AGE ELEVENTH TO SEVENTH
THE DORIC AND IONIC ORDERS OF GREEK
Early Ionic temples at Samos and Ephesus
POMPEII AND OSTIA
IMPERIAL PATRONAGE
Temples
ROMAN PROVINCIAL CITIES
ROME JERUSALEM
Rome
Jerusalem
Glossary
Further reading
Bibliography
Illustration sources
Index
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Charles Gates is senior lecturer of archaeology and art history at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. His research focuses on Minoan, Mycenaean and Greek art and archaeology. Since 1993 he has participated in the excavations at Kinet Höyük (Turkey), a Bronze and Iron Age port city in the north-east Mediterrean.

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