The City in the Ancient World / Mason Hammond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammond, Mason, author.

Contributor:

Bartson, Lester J.

Series:

Harvard Studies in Urban History

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (631 p.): 13 Ktn.

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The emergence of cities in the different regions of the ancient world presents two problems. First, in areas of common culture or at least of cultural contact, did the cities evolve independently, as phenomena of social, political, and economic growth, or did they emanate from a common center of origin? Second, how did the Greco-Roman city-state originate? In considering these questions, Mason Hammond has limited the ancient world to the Middle and Near East, the Indus Valley, and the Mediterranean region. He takes geographical and economic factors into account as he treats the cities historically by areas, from their first development in Sumeraround 3200 B.C, to the end of the ancient world in the middle of the sixth century A.D. Mr. Hammond concludes that the city's evolution was a phenomenon of local social development but was also influenced by older cultures. The city-state, he shows, was a creation of the Greek genius. It was diffused throughout the Greco-Ronan world, and withered with the decline of ancient culture in the early Middle Ages. The author provides brief geographical descriptions of the areas he covers. Thirteen maps give the locations of places referred to in the text. Where ancient and modern names differ markedly, both are given, in the text and in an index of the places shown on the maps. An extensive chronological survey and a general index document the text.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface / Hammond, Mason

I Introduction

II Definitions, Evidence, and Prehistoric Chronology

III Background to the Emergence of the City

IV Mesopotamia Early Technological and Social Progress

V Mesopotamia The City Emerges in Sumer

VI Mesopotamia From City to Empire Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, and Persia

VII The Indus Valley A Dead End

VIII Egypt Civilization of Palaces, Temples, and Tombs

IX Canaan Cities of Commerce

X Anatolia Abortive Cities

XI The Aegean Civilization Palaces or Cities ?

XII The Indo-Europeans Tribesmen Urbanized

XIII Summary of the City before the Greeks

XIV Archaic Greece The Emergence of the City-State

XV Classical Greece Age of the City-State

XVI Hellenistic Territorial States Restriction and Spread of the City-State

XVII Greek and Roman City Design and Urban Planning

XVIII The City in Early Italy and the Rise of Rome

XIX Republican Rome Success and Failure as a City-State

XX The Early Roman Empire An Oecumenē of Free Cities under One Rule

XXI The Late Roman Empire Withering of the City-State

XXII The City in the Early Mediaeval West and in the Byzantine East

XXIII Recapitulation

CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY

Chapter Bibliographies

Index to Bibliographies

Series List

Table of Coordination for Revised Cambridge Ancient History I.

Index of Places on the Maps

General Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-41838-7

OCLC:

1013962444