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Describing Constantinople

The Ancient City

This bibliography is based on that used in the Classics First year Core Course, The Ancient City

Cities

  • L. Mumford, The city in history (1961)
  • P. Wheatley, The pivot of the four quarters: a preliminary enquiry into the origins and character of the ancient Chinese city (1971)

    • Ideal cities

  • Plato, Republic, Laws
  • Aristotle, Politics
  • Italo Calvino, Invisible cities (1978) [a novel of sorts, and not about the ancient world]
  • G.R. Morrow, Plato's Cretan city (1960)
  • P.A. Brunt , 'The model city of Plato's Laws' in ibid. Studies in Greek history and thought (1993) ch. 9
  • N.H. Golding 'Plato as a city planner', Arethusa 8 (1975) 359-371
  • E.M. & N. Wood Class ideology and ancient political theory (1978)
  • R.G. Mulgan, Aristotle's political theory (1977)

  • Augustine , Bishop of Hippo, City of God online (excerpts) , also trans. Penguin


    • Greek

  • R.E. Wycherley, How the Greeks built cities2 (1962)
  • R.G. Osborne, Classical landscape with figures : the ancient Greek city and its countryside (1987)
  • O. Murray & S.R.F. Price eds., The Greek city : from Homer to Alexander (1990)
  • M.H. Hansen & K. Raaflaub ed., Studies in the ancient Greek polis (1995)
  • M.H. Hansen & K. Raaflaub ed., More studies in the ancient Greek polis (1996)
  • T.H. Nielsen, Yet more studies in the ancient Greek polis (1997)
  • L.G.Mitchell & P.J. Rhodes ed. The development of the polis in archaic Greece (1997)

    • Roman

  • J. Rykwert, The idea of a town: the anthropology of urban form in Rome, Italy and the ancient world (1976)
  • G.M. Woloch, Roman cities (1983)
  • J. Rich & A. Wallace-Hadrill ed., City and country in the ancient world (1991)
  • E.J. Owens, The city in the Greek and Roman world (1991)

    • The late Roman city

  • J. Rich, ed., The City in Late Antiquity (London, 1992)
  • F. A. Bauer, Stadt, Platz und Denkmal in der Spatantike : Untersuchungen zur Ausstattung des offentlichen Raums in den spatantiken Stadten Rom, Konstantinopel und Ephesos (Mainz : Philipp von Zabern, 1996)
  • Luke Lavan ed., Recent research in late-antique urbanism (Portsmouth, R.I. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2001)
  • Jean- Michel Spieser, Urban and religious spaces in late antiquity and early Byzantium (Aldershot, 2001).

    • Tetrarchic Capitals

  • R. Krautheimer, Three Christian Capitals (1982)
  • T. D. Barnes, The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine (Harvard, 1982)
  • Wilkes, J. J., Diocletian's palace, Split, Sanders memorial Lecture (Sheffield, 1986)
  • Imperial Space : Rome, Constantinople and the Early Church (A history of Architecture, Vol 4) (Watson-Guptill, May 1998)
  • Christine Kondoleon, Antioch the lost ancient city (Princeton, 2000)
  • Liliane Ennabli, Carthage une métropole chrétienne du IVe à la fin du VIIe siècle (Paris, 1997). 

    • Descriptions:

    Split

    Trier

    Antioch: 1 , 2

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