A 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 x

Notes on Contributors xv

Preface xxii

Abbreviations xxiv

1 Studying ancient (Greek and Roman) urbanism: research context, commonalities, and specificities 1
Arjan Zuiderhoek

Part I Urbanism and urbanization 15

2 Early Greek urbanism 17
John Bintliff

3 Early Roman urbanism in its Italian context 38
Marleen K. Termeer

4 City foundations and urbanism in the Hellenistic world 56
Gary Reger

5 Urban patterns in the Early Roman Empire, 27 BCE–250 CE 73
Luuk de Ligt

Part II The urban landscape 91

6 Urban planning and development 93
Miko Flohr Copyrighted Material

7 Agoras and forums 111
Christopher P. Dickenson

8 Spectacle buildings and baths 126
Sadi Maréchal

9 Urban housing in the ancient Mediterranean 150
Miko Flohr

10 Traffic, movement, and the urban streetscape 169
Eric Poehler

11 Greco-Roman urban water infrastructure 185
Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow

12 Urban margins in Greco-Roman cities 202
Saskia Stevens

Part III The city as a political community 219

13 Politics and political institutions in Archaic and Classical Greek cities 221
Matthew Simonton

14 Political institutions in Hellenistic and Roman-era Greek cities 236
Arjan Zuiderhoek

15 Politics and political institutions in Roman cities in Italy and the West 251
Christopher J. Dart

16 Kings, governors, and emperors: Greek cities’ interactions with powerful outsiders during theHellenistic and Roman periods 267
Sviatoslav Dmitriev

Part IV Economy and society 285

17 Cities and socioecological systems in the ancient world 287
Stef Boogers, Bas Beaujean, and Jeroen Poblome

18 City and country in the Greek world 306
Edward M. Harris and David M. Lewis

19 City and country in the Roman world 321
Tymon de Haas

20 Greek urban social structures 344
Kostas Vlassopoulos

21 Urban social structures in the Roman world 361
Emily Hemelrijk and Miko Flohr

Part V Civic ritual and civic identity 375

22 Civic cults in Classical Athens 377
J.Z. van Rookhuijzen

23 Urban religion in Roman cities 395
Jörg Rüpke

Part VI Cities and war 407

24 Fighting poleis: Greek cities at war 409
Roel Konijnendijk

25 War and the city in the Roman world 424
Paul Erdkamp

Part VII Imagined cities 441

26 The (utopian) city in Greek political thought 443
Robert Ballingall

27 Cicero’s ideal city 458
Dean Hammer

28 Representations of the city in Greek and Roman literature 469
Christiaan Caspers

29 The visual imagination and representation of the ancient city 481
Annette Haug

Part VIII Late Antiquity and beyond 503

30 Late Roman cities in the West 505
Douglas Underwood

31 Greco-Roman cities in the Late Antique East 525
Ine Jacobs

32 The afterlife of the ancient city 546
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

Index 560