Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World

Miko Flohr is University Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University, Netherlands. His research focuses on the architecture and archaeology of the everyday urban living environment. He is the author of The World of the Fullo: Work, Economy, and Society in Roman Italy and co-editor of Urban Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World, The Economy of Pompeii, Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World, and Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Arjan Zuiderhoek is Full Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University, Belgium. He has worked primarily on the socio-political and socio-economic history of Greek cities under the Roman Empire, and also has a strong interest in the Greek city in earlier periods, and broader socio-economic themes. His publications include The Ancient City and Space, Movement and the Economy in Roman Cities in Italy and Beyond.

• List of Illustrations xNotes on Contributors xvPreface xxiiAbbreviations xxiv1 Studying ancient (Greek and Roman) urbanism: research context, commonalities, and specificities 1Arjan ZuiderhoekPart I Urbanism and urbanization 152 Early Greek urbanism 17John Bintliff3 Early Roman urbanism in its Italian context 38Marleen K. Termeer4 City foundations and urbanism in the Hellenistic world 56Gary Reger5 Urban patterns in the Early Roman Empire, 27 BCE–250 CE 73Luuk de LigtPart II The urban landscape 916 Urban planning and development 93Miko Flohr Copyrighted Material7 Agoras and forums 111Christopher P. Dickenson8 Spectacle buildings and baths 126Sadi Maréchal9 Urban housing in the ancient Mediterranean 150Miko Flohr10 Traffic, movement, and the urban streetscape 169Eric Poehler11 Greco-Roman urban water infrastructure 185Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow12 Urban margins in Greco-Roman cities 202Saskia StevensPart III The city as a political community 21913 Politics and political institutions in Archaic and Classical Greek cities 221Matthew Simonton14 Political institutions in Hellenistic and Roman-era Greek cities 236Arjan Zuiderhoek15 Politics and political institutions in Roman cities in Italy and the West 251Christopher J. Dart16 Kings, governors, and emperors: Greek cities’ interactions with powerful outsiders during theHellenistic and Roman periods 267Sviatoslav DmitrievPart IV Economy and society 28517 Cities and socioecological systems in the ancient world 287Stef Boogers, Bas Beaujean, and Jeroen Poblome18 City and country in the Greek world 306Edward M. Harris and David M. Lewis19 City and country in the Roman world 321Tymon de Haas20 Greek urban social structures 344Kostas Vlassopoulos21 Urban social structures in the Roman world 361Emily Hemelrijk and Miko FlohrPart V Civic ritual and civic identity 37522 Civic cults in Classical Athens 377J.Z. van Rookhuijzen23 Urban religion in Roman cities 395Jörg RüpkePart VI Cities and war 40724 Fighting poleis: Greek cities at war 409Roel Konijnendijk25 War and the city in the Roman world 424Paul ErdkampPart VII Imagined cities 44126 The (utopian) city in Greek political thought 443Robert Ballingall27 Cicero’s ideal city 458Dean Hammer28 Representations of the city in Greek and Roman literature 469Christiaan Caspers29 The visual imagination and representation of the ancient city 481Annette HaugPart VIII Late Antiquity and beyond 50330 Late Roman cities in the West 505Douglas Underwood31 Greco-Roman cities in the Late Antique East 525Ine Jacobs32 The afterlife of the ancient city 546Andrew Wallace-HadrillIndex 560