Getzel M. Cohen, Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, is author of The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor(California, 1995).

"The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa will take its place, as the first volume already has, as an indispensable tool for the study of Greek history. The book will be a research tool of lasting value: there is nothing remotely similar available to the student of urbanism in the ancient world. The scholarship is of the highest quality, thorough and current." - Kent Rigsby, editor of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies"

• PREFACE THE SCHOLARSHIP AND THE SOURCES A GEOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW I. NORTHERN SYRIA II. CHALCIDICE III. CYRRHESTICE AND COMMAGENE IV. PHOENICIA V. SOUTHERN SYRIA VI. THE RED SEA BASIN AND INDIAN OCEAN VII. EGYPT VIII. ALEXANDREIA NEAR EGYPT IX. CYRENAICA APPENDICES ABBREVIATIONS SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF ANCIENT PLACE NAMES MAPS

Getzel M. Cohen, Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, is author of The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor(California, 1995).

"The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa will take its place, as the first volume already has, as an indispensable tool for the study of Greek history. The book will be a research tool of lasting value: there is nothing remotely similar available to the student of urbanism in the ancient world. The scholarship is of the highest quality, thorough and current." - Kent Rigsby, editor of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies"

• PREFACE THE SCHOLARSHIP AND THE SOURCES A GEOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW I. NORTHERN SYRIA II. CHALCIDICE III. CYRRHESTICE AND COMMAGENE IV. PHOENICIA V. SOUTHERN SYRIA VI. THE RED SEA BASIN AND INDIAN OCEAN VII. EGYPT VIII. ALEXANDREIA NEAR EGYPT IX. CYRENAICA APPENDICES ABBREVIATIONS SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF ANCIENT PLACE NAMES MAPS

Getzel M. Cohen, Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, is author of The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor(California, 1995).

"The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa will take its place, as the first volume already has, as an indispensable tool for the study of Greek history. The book will be a research tool of lasting value: there is nothing remotely similar available to the student of urbanism in the ancient world. The scholarship is of the highest quality, thorough and current." - Kent Rigsby, editor of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies"

• PREFACE THE SCHOLARSHIP AND THE SOURCES A GEOGRAPHIC OVERVIEW I. NORTHERN SYRIA II. CHALCIDICE III. CYRRHESTICE AND COMMAGENE IV. PHOENICIA V. SOUTHERN SYRIA VI. THE RED SEA BASIN AND INDIAN OCEAN VII. EGYPT VIII. ALEXANDREIA NEAR EGYPT IX. CYRENAICA APPENDICES ABBREVIATIONS SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF ANCIENT PLACE NAMES MAPS