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1st Edition

Mediterranean Cities Historical Perspectives

By Robert L. Hohlfelder, Irad Malkin Copyright 1988
    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    206 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 Bollards and Men, D.J. Blackman; Chapter 2 The ‘City of the Blind’ and the Founding of Byzantium, Irad Malkin, Nino Shmueli; Chapter 3 Akko-Ptolemais: A Maritime Metropolis in Hellenistic and Early Roman Times, 332 BCE – 70 CE, as Seen through the Literary Sources, Nadav Kashtan; Chapter 4 Procopius, De Aedificiis, 1.11.18–20: Caesarea Maritima and the Building of Harbours in Late Antiquity, Robert L. Hohlfelder; Chapter 5 Literary Sources and Numismatic Evidence of Maritime Activity in Caesarea during the Roman Period, Joseph Ringel; Chapter 6 The Strategic and Commercial Importance of Jaffa, 66–69 CE, George T. Radan; Chapter 7 Archaeology and History at Tel Michal, Ze’Ev Herzog; Chapter 8 The Ecology of Maritime Success: The Puzzling Case of Amalfi, Barbara M. Kreutz; Chapter 9 Labour in Thirteenth–Century Genoa, Steven A. Epstein; Chapter 10 The Venetian Port of Candia, Crete (1299–1363): Construction and Maintenance, Ruthi Gertwagen; Chapter 11 Humanism on the Sea, Ennio Concina; Chapter 12 A Modern Perspective: The Recent Development of Port Cities in Southern Europe, Montanari Armando; Chapter 13 Testimonium: Cicero, The Republic, 2.5–9: On the Disadvantages of a Maritime City, Vishnia Rachel;

    Biography

    Edited by IRAD MALKIN and ROBERT L. HOHLFELDER.

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