City and Country in the Ancient World

by Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew; Rich, John

• ISBN13: 9780203418703
• ISBN10: 0203418700
• Copyright: 2003-10-04
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

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 papers written by influential archaeologists and historians seeks to bring together the two disciplines in exploring the city-country relationship.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Archaeology and the Study of the Greek City	p. 1
The Early Polis as City and State	p. 25
Modelling Settlement Structures in Ancient Greece: New Approaches to the Polis	p. 59
Surveys, Cities and Synoecism	p. 97
Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Subsistence: Exchange and Society in the Greek City	p. 119
Settlement, City and Elite in Samnium and Lycia	p. 147
Roman Towns and Their Territories: an Archaeological Perspective	p. 169
Towns and Territories in Southern Etruria	p. 191
City, Territory and Taxation	p. 211
Elites and Trade in the Roman Town	p. 241
Spatial Organisation and Social Change in Roman Towns	p. 273
Index	p. 295
List of Contributors	p. 306
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