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Availability:In StockContributor:Greg WoolfPublish date:2020-07-01Pages:528
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199946129ISBN-10:199946124UPC:9780199946129Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient, CivilizationBook Topic:Greece, RomeSize:9.30 x 6.40 x 1.70 inchesWeight:2.0018Product ID:SCFAV9C081

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment

The growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our urban history, but it is not the first. Three thousand years ago most of the Mediterranean basin was a world of villages; a world without money or writing, without temples for the gods or palaces for the mighty. Over...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199946129ISBN-10:199946124UPC:9780199946129Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Ancient, CivilizationBook Topic:Greece, RomeSize:9.30 x 6.40 x 1.70 inchesWeight:2.0018Product ID:SCFAV9C081
Greg Woolf is the Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, at the University of London and author of Rome: An Empire's Story and Et Tu Bruté The Murder of Caesar and Political Assassination.
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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