Author
Launaro; Alessandro
Year
2024
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Language
English
Pages
5
ISBN
979-8-88857-037-1
Last Update
16-Jul-2026
Keywords
Archaeology ; History ; Classical Studies
Towns and urban life have existed for a very long time, well before the Romans, and yet they came to represent a quintessential feature of the Roman world. Throughout Antiquity most of the population lived in the open countryside, but their settlements and lives almost invariably gravitated around – and indeed supported – a sprawling network of towns. Their relationship was very much symbiotic as urban sites ‘were administrative centres, they were garrison towns, they were centres of exchange both as between towns and regions, and between townsmen and the surrounding countryside’ (Hopkins 1978, 75; also Zuiderhoek 2017, 37–55)....
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