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Cities of the ancient world
Creator
Title
Cities of the ancient world [sound recording] / Steven L. Tuck.
ISBN
159803328X
9781598033281
Publication
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2014]
Physical Description
12 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 177 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Notes
Course no. 3723.
Compact discs.
Format
Audio
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2016
Series
Great courses. history, ancient history
Performers
Lectures by Professor Steven L. Tuck, Miami University.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references in guidebook.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The lure of the city
Catalhoyuk : first experiment in urban living
Jericho and its walls
Uruk : city of Gilgamesh
Mysterious Mohenjo-daro
Kahun, company town in the desert
Work and life at Deir el-Medina
Amarna : revolutionary capital
Knossos : palace, city, or temple?
Akrotiri : Bronze Age Pompeii
Mycenae, Tiryns, and the mask of Agamemnon
Athens : civic buildings and civic identity
Athenian domestic architecture
Hippodamian planning : Miletus and Ephesus
Olynthus : a classic Greek city preserved
Wonder and diversity at Alexandria
Pergamon : the new theatricality
The good life in Rome
The lives of the poor in Rome
Ostia : middle-class harbor town
Timgad : more Roman than Rome
Karanis : on the fringes of the empire
Constantinople : the last ancient city
Lessons and legacies of ancient urban life. .
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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