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The Life and Death of Ancient Cities
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Description| Publisher | Oxford University Press UK |
| Author(s) | Greg Woolf |
| Subtitle | A Natural History |
| Published | 16th July 2020 |
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A Natural History
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 civilizationsin 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.
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