Ancient Cities : The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome (Paperback, 2 ed)

List of Illustrations  Preface  Preface to the second edition  Introduction  PART 1: CITIES OF THE NEAR EAST AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: NEOLITHIC, BRONZE AGE, AND IRON AGE  1. Neolithic Towns and Villages in the Near East  2. Early Sumerian Cities  3. Mesopotamian Cities in the Late Third and Second Millennia BC  4. Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization  5. Egypt of the Pyramids  6. Egyptian Cities, Temples, and Tombs of the Second Millennium BC  7. Aegean Bronze Age Towns and Cities  8. Anatolian Bronze Age Cities: Troy and Hattusha  9. Cypriots, Canaanites, and Levantine Trading Cities of the Late Bronze Age  10. Near Eastern Cities in the Iron Age  11. Phoenician and Punic Cities  PART 2: GREEK CITIES  12. Early Greek City-States of the Iron Age (Eleventh--Seventh Centuries BC)  13. Archaic Greek Cities, I: The Doric and Ionic Orders of Greek Architecture, and East Greek Cities to the Ionian Revolt  14. Archaic Greek Cities, II: Athens and Sparta  15. Greek Sanctuaries: Delphi and Olympia  16. Athens in the Fifth Century BC  17. Greek Cities and Sanctuaries in the Late Classical Period  18. Hellenistic Cities  PART 3: CITIES OF ANCIENT ITALY AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE  19. Greek and Etruscan Cities in Italy  20. Rome: From its Origins to the End of the Republic  21. Rome in the Age of Augustus  22. Italy outside the Capital: Pompeii and Ostia  23. Rome from Nero to Hadrian: Imperial Patronage and Architectural Revolution  24. Roman Provincial Cities  25. Late Antique Transformations: Rome, Jerusalem, and Constantinople in the Age of Constantine  Illustration sources  Glossary  Further Reading  Bibliography  Index