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Cities of the Ancient World - Lectures

Cities of the Ancient World ()

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The lectures provide an invaluable look at the design and architecture of ancient cities, as well as a flesh-and-blood glimpse into the daily lives of ordinary people and the worlds they created.

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The Lure of the City

Çatalhöyük—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 Classical 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

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