The Birth of the City in Antiquity.
From Boccard| N° d'inventaire | 20299 |
| Format | 21 x 30 |
| Détails | 298 p., fig. B/W in-text, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2003 |
| Etat | Occasion |
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This work, devoted to the "Birth of Cities in Antiquity", presents some twenty contributions, resulting from a series of conferences given in 2000 and 2001 at the 4th section of the École pratique des hautes études (Paris). The ambition of these seminars was to study a common theme, from its different aspects, with varied approaches. Specialists in archaic or Hellenistic Greece, Rome and its provinces, Celtic Europe, were thus able to present their ideas, propose syntheses, even partial ones. How, why, in what conditions did cities arise and develop, at a given time? The progress of archaeological research invites us to consider in a new way the origin of many agglomerations, whether they are authentic capitals of cities, in the political sense of the term, or simple "secondary" centers, as we call them today. This book does not contain general and theoretical answers, but rather studies of various cases, which demonstrate the absence of a single model of urbanization, the importance of the substrates of previous populations, that of topography, of the oldest sanctuaries, of local history. In its own modest and limited way, this book hopes to contribute to the renewal of a reflection that interests all historians.
This work, devoted to the "Birth of Cities in Antiquity", presents some twenty contributions, resulting from a series of conferences given in 2000 and 2001 at the 4th section of the École pratique des hautes études (Paris). The ambition of these seminars was to study a common theme, from its different aspects, with varied approaches. Specialists in archaic or Hellenistic Greece, Rome and its provinces, Celtic Europe, were thus able to present their ideas, propose syntheses, even partial ones. How, why, in what conditions did cities arise and develop, at a given time? The progress of archaeological research invites us to consider in a new way the origin of many agglomerations, whether they are authentic capitals of cities, in the political sense of the term, or simple "secondary" centers, as we call them today. This book does not contain general and theoretical answers, but rather studies of various cases, which demonstrate the absence of a single model of urbanization, the importance of the substrates of previous populations, that of topography, of the oldest sanctuaries, of local history. In its own modest and limited way, this book hopes to contribute to the renewal of a reflection that interests all historians.