A Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
Studying ancient (Greek and Roman) urbanism: research context, commonalities, and specificities
Urbanism and urbanization
Early Greek urbanism
Early Roman urbanism in its Italian context
City foundations and urbanism in the Hellenistic world
Urban patterns in the Early Roman Empire, 27 BCE–250 CE
The urban landscape
Urban planning and development
Agoras and forums
Spectacle buildings and baths
Urban housing in the ancient Mediterranean
Traffic, movement, and the urban streetscape
GrecoRoman urban water infrastructure
Urban margins in GrecoRoman cities
The city as a political community
Politics and political institutions in Archaic and Classical Greek cities
Political institutions in Hellenistic and Romanera Greek cities
Politics and political institutions in Roman cities in Italy and the West
Kings, governors, and emperors: Greek cities’ interactions with powerful outsiders during the Hellenistic and Roman periods
Economy and society
Cities and socioecological systems in the ancient world
City and country in the Greek world
City and country in the Roman world
Greek urban social structures
Urban social structures in the Roman world
Civic ritual and civic identity
Civic cults in Classical Athens
Urban religion in Roman cities
Cities and war
Fighting poleis: Greek cities at war
War and the city in the Roman world
Imagined cities
The (utopian) city in Greek political thought
Cicero’s ideal city
Representations of the city in Greek and Roman literature
The visual imagination and representation of the ancient city
Late Antiquity and beyond
Late Roman cities in the West
GrecoRoman cities in the Late Antique East
The afterlife of the ancient city
Index