The Fall Of Cities In The Mediterranean
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The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean
Author | : Mary R. Bachvarova,Dorota Dutsch,Ann Suter |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2016-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107031968 |
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This book explores some of the most prominent literary responses to the collective trauma of a fallen city.
The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean
Author | : Mary R. Bachvarova,Dorota Dutsch,Ann Suter |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Cities and towns in literature |
ISBN | : 1316485749 |
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A body of theory has developed about the role and function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for fallen cities in commemorating or resolving communal trauma. This volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen city in folk-song and a variety of literary genres. These commemorations reveal memories modified by diverse agendas, and contains narrative structures and motifs that show the meaning of memory-making about fallen cities. Opening a new avenue of research into the Mediterranean genre of city lament, this book examines references to, or re-workings of, otherwise lost texts or ways of commemorating fallen cities in the extant texts, and with greater emphasis than usual on the point of view of the victors.
Mediterranean Cities
Author | : Robert L. Hohlfelder,Irad Malkin |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2015-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317845294 |
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First published in 1988. This is a collection of works where the Mediterranean provides the context for all the cities which appear in this volume: all are (or have been) port cities, and as such their harbours played a significant role in shaping their histories. In essence, the question of ‘interaction between man and sea’ is one of the influence of the maritime position on the human communities constituting the ‘Mediterranean cities’: the connections between them, and the link of each city with its hinterland, as well as the influence of its position on the city’s internal development and character.
The Mediterranean City in Transition
Author | : Lila Leontidou |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1990-04-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521344678 |
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Postwar capitalist development has involved a transition from polarization toward diffuse urbanization and flexibility. The timing and form of this transition and its effects on spatial structures have varied, as is especially evident in the case of Mediterranean Europe. Focusing upon Greater Athens between 1948 and 1981 - the crucial period of the transition - Lila Leontidou explores the role of social classes in urban development.
Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
Author | : Malte Fuhrmann |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2020-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108477376 |
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A fascinating history of nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean port cities, re-examining European influence over the changing lives of their urban populations.
The Mediterranean Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins
Author | : Grant Allen,Arthur Griffiths,E. Ball,Thomas Bonney,Henry Traill |
Publsiher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2021-01-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9785040564996 |
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"The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins" by Grant Allen, T. G. Bonney, H. D. Traill, Arthur Griffiths, E. A. R. Ball. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Cities as Palimpsests
Author | : Elizabeth Key Fowden,Suna Çağaptay,Edward Zychowicz-Coghill,Louise Blanke |
Publsiher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 2022-02-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781789257694 |
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The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodization and cultural practice, but which bear little relation to the experience of ancient, medieval or early modern persons. Spanning the period from Constantine’s foundation of a New Rome in the fourth century to the contemporary aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, this book integrates perspectives from scholars typically separated by the disciplinary boundaries of late antique, Islamic, medieval, Byzantine, Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern studies, but whose work is united by their study of a region characterized by resilience rather than rupture. The volume includes an introduction and eighteen contributions from historians, archaeologists and art historians who explore the historical and cultural complexity of eastern Mediterranean cities. The authors highlight the effects of the multiple antiquities imagined and experienced by persons and groups who for generations made these cities home, and also by travelers and other observers who passed through them. The independent case studies are bound together by a shared concern to understand the many ways in which the cities’ pasts live on in their presents.
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities
Author | : Greg Woolf |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2020-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780190618568 |
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The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment The growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our urban history, but it is not the first. Three thousand years ago most of the Mediterranean basin was a world of villages; a world without money or writing, without temples for the gods or palaces for the mighty. Over the centuries that followed, however, cities appeared in many places around the Inland Sea, built by Greeks and Romans, and also by Etruscans and Phoenicians, Tartessians and Lycians, and many others. Most were tiny by modern standards, but they were the building blocks of all the states and empires of antiquity. The greatest--Athens and Corinth, Syracuse and Marseilles, Alexandria and Ephesus, Persepolis and Carthage, Rome and Byzantium--became the powerhouses of successive ancient societies, not just political centers but also the places where ancient art and literatures were created and accumulated. And then, half way through the first millennium, most withered away, leaving behind ruins that have fascinated so many who came after. Based on the most recent historical and archaeological evidence, The Life and Death of Ancient Cities provides a sweeping narrative of one of the world's first great urban experiments, from Bronze Age origins to the demise of cities in late antiquity. Greg Woolf chronicles the history of the ancient Mediterranean city, against the background of wider patterns of human evolution, and of the unforgiving environment in which they were built. Richly illustrated, the book vividly brings to life the abandoned remains of our ancient urban ancestors and serves as a stark reminder of the fragility of even the mightiest of cities.