City and Country in the Ancient World

John Rich is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Nottingham. Archaeology in the University of Cambridge. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading.

'... an invaluable summary of current research/opinions on the topic' – JACT Review

• Preface Introduction1. Archaeology and the study of the Greek city 2. The early polis as city and state 3. Modelling settlement structures in Ancient Greece: new approaches to the polis 4. Surveys, cities and synoecism 5. Pride and prejudice, sense and subsistence: exchange and society in the Greek city 6. Settlement, city and elite in Samnium and Lycia 7. Roman towns and their territories: an archaeological perspective 8. Towns and territories in Southern Etruria 9. City, territory and taxation 10. Elites and trade in the Roman town 11. Spatial organisation and social change in Roman towns