Mediterranean Cities : Historical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780714633534 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 200 str.

Irad Malkin; Robert L. Hohlfelder

Opis

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Bollards and Men, D.J. Blackman; Chapter 2 The ‘City of the Blind’ and the Founding of Byzantium, Irad Malkin, Nino Shmueli; Chapter 3 Akko-Ptolemais: A Maritime Metropolis in Hellenistic and Early Roman Times, 332 BCE – 70 CE, as Seen through the Literary Sources, Nadav Kashtan; Chapter 4 Procopius, De Aedificiis, 1.11.18–20: Caesarea Maritima and the Building of Harbours in Late Antiquity, Robert L. Hohlfelder; Chapter 5 Literary Sources and Numismatic Evidence of Maritime Activity in Caesarea during the Roman Period, Joseph Ringel; Chapter 6 The Strategic and Commercial Importance of Jaffa, 66–69 CE, George T. Radan; Chapter 7 Archaeology and History at Tel Michal, Ze’Ev Herzog; Chapter 8 The Ecology of Maritime Success: The Puzzling Case of Amalfi, Barbara M. Kreutz; Chapter 9 Labour in Thirteenth–Century Genoa, Steven A. Epstein; Chapter 10 The Venetian Port of Candia, Crete (1299–1363): Construction and Maintenance, Ruthi Gertwagen; Chapter 11 Humanism on the Sea, Ennio Concina; Chapter 12 A Modern Perspective: The Recent Development of Port Cities in Southern Europe, Montanari Armando; Chapter 13 Testimonium: Cicero, The Republic, 2.5–9: On the Disadvantages of a Maritime City, Vishnia Rachel;

O autorze

Edited by IRAD MALKIN and ROBERT L. HOHLFELDER.