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Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity: Remains and Representations of the Ancient City

By Adam M. Kemezis

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9004277358, 9789004277359
ISSN
2352-8656
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
80 MB (84149513 bytes)
Series
Mnemosyne Supplements 375
Pages
xiv+533\549
Topic
History Archaeology
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-10-31 19:44:35
Ancient Civilizations Assyria Babylonia Sumer Azte

Description

A unique variety of approaches to all aspects of urban culture in the ancient world can be found in Urban Dreams and Realities in Antiquity, a collection of 19 essays addressing ancient cities from an interdisciplinary perspective. As the title indicates, the volume considers both how ancient people lived in their cities as physical structures and how they thought with them as ideas and symbols. Essays in this volume deal with texts and sites from Spain to South India, but there is a particular focus on the archaeology and epigraphy of Roman-era Italy, civic identity in the Roman provinces, the Hebrew Bible and Early Christian literature, Virgil and other imperial Latin authors.

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