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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450419403321

Autore

Crouch Dora P.

Titolo

Geology and settlement : Greco-Roman patterns / / Dora P. Crouch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

0-19-756045-8

1-280-44351-0

9786610443512

0-19-535943-7

1-60129-931-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

711/.42/0937

Soggetti

Engineering geology - Rome

Engineering geology - Greece

City planning - Rome

City planning - Greece

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. History, Geology, Engineering, and Archaeology; 3. Western Grego-Roman Cities; 4. Central Greco-Roman Cities; 5. Eastern Grego-Roman Cities; 6. Comparisons of Cities; 7. General Conclusions; 8. Physical and Intellectual Issues; Appendix A. Chronologies; Appendix B. Glossary of Technical Terms; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This study explains the Greco - Roman urban form as it relates to the geological basis at selected sites in the Mediterranean basin. Each of the sites - Argos, Delphi, Ephesus, and Syracuse among them - has manifested in its physical form the geology on which it stood and from which it was made.