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The Fabric of Cities: Aspects of Urbanism, Urban Topography and Society in Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East)

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The Fabric of Cities presents an interdisciplinary number of articles on urbanism in ancient Mesopotamia, Israel, Greece and Rome, which specializes in the social dimension of cities’ topographical features. The contributions of this book offer investigations of neighbourhoods, city gates, streets, temples and palaces drawing on textual and archaeological sources in addition to art. The themes treated on this work encompass the diverse functions of public and marginal spaces in Mesopotamian cities and Rome, the role of agency within the development of Babylonian neighbourhoods, the relationship between private and non-private in Assyrian palaces, the relationship between political strategies and temple building in Sumerian literary texts, and the communicative uses of language in Classical Greek texts to discuss urban space.

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