This volume of papers by influential historians and archaeologists explores the city-country relationship in the ancient Greco-Roman world and its impact on soc

The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world of citie, in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre. This volume of pap

This book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics.

John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations—and which in turn have shaped our own.

Cities today are paradoxical. They are engines of innovation and opportunity, but they are also plagued by significant income inequality and segregation by ethn