The Life And Death Of Ancient Cities: A Natural History Greg Woolf Oxford University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Archaeology

The Human Race Is On A 10 000 Year Urban Adventure Our Ancestors Wandered Planet Or Lived Scattered In Villages Yet By End Of This Century Almost All Us Will Live Cities But That Journey Has Not Been Smooth One And Civilizations Have Risen Fallen Many Times History Ruins Them Still Enchant Book Tells Story Rise Fall Ancient From Bronze Age To Beginning Middle Ages It Tale War Politics Pestilence Famine Triumph Tragedy Turns Both Fabulous Squalid Its Focus Mediterranean: Greeks Romans At Centre Phoenicians Etruscans Persians Gauls Egyptians Play Part Begins With Greek Discovery Much More Egypt Near East Charts Gradual Spread Urbanism Atlantic Then North Sea Centuries Followed Mediterranean Where Was Harsh Environment For So How Were First Created Sustained Long These Apparently Unpromising Surroundings? Did They Feed Themselves Find Water Building Materials What Do Their Waste Dead? Why Rulers Give Up Them? Like Inhabit Worlds Unlike Own - Plunged Into Darkness Every Night Dominated Temples Gods Farmers Slaves Soldiers Ultimately Chief Characters Are Athens Sparta Persepolis Carthage Rome Alexandria: Formed Great Families Encompasses Generations People Who Built Inhabited Whose Short Lives Left Behind Monuments Inspired City Builders Ever Since Stand As Stark Reminders 21St Perils Well Potential Rewards An Existence Σελίδες: 518 Διαστάσεις: 16 2X16 2Cm