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Title: Life & Death of Ancient Cities, The: A Natural History
Author: WOOLF GREG
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 16/07/2020
Imprint: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Price: $50.95
Publishing status: Active
The story of the rise and fall of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages. It is a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, triumph and tragedy, by turns both fabulous and squalid. Its focus is on the ancient Mediterranean: Greeks and Romans at the centre, but Phoenicians and Etruscans, Persians, Gauls and Egyptians all play a part. The story begins with the Greek discovery of much more ancient urban civilizations
in Egypt and the Near East, and charts the gradual spread of urbanism to the Atlantic and then the North Sea in the centuries that followed.
ISBN: 9780199664733
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm
Pages: 528