The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt

ISBN-13: 9780415237017 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 496 str.

Richard Alston;Alston Richard

Opis

For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere. We are not, therefore, limited to a history of the public faces of cities, their inscriptions, and the writings of their elites, but can begin to understand what the transformations of the city meant for ordinary people, and to uncover the forces that shaped the everyday lives of city dwellers.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Cities and Space 3. Houses 4. Streets, Districts and Neighbourhoods 5. The City 6. The City, Region and World 7. Bibliography

O autorze

Richard Alston