The Ancient City

@inproceedings{Zuiderhoek2016TheAC,
  title={The Ancient City},
  author={Andries Zuiderhoek},
  year={2016}
}
Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city has been the subject of intense debates due to the strong association in Western thought between urbanism, capitalism and modernity. In this book, Arjan Zuiderhoek provides a survey of the main issues at stake in these debates, as well as a sketch of the chief characteristics of Greek and Roman… 
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