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Volume I offers a broad perspective on urban culture in the ancient European world. It begins with chronological overviews which paint in broad brushstrokes a picture that serves as a frame for the thematic chapters in the rest of the volume. Positioning ancient Europe within its wider context, it touches on Asia and Africa as regions that informed and were later influenced by urban development in Europe, with particular emphasis on the Mediterranean basin. Topics range from formal characteristics (including public space), water provision, waste disposal, urban maintenance, spaces for the dead, and border spaces; to ways of thinking about, visualising, and remembering cities in antiquity; to conflict within and between cities, economics, mobility and globalisation, intersectional urban experiences, slavery, political participation, and religion.

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Penelope J. E. Davies is Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, and Hedda Andersson Professor at Lund University, where she holds an honorary doctorate. Her research focuses on state architecture in ancient Rome. She is the author of Death and the Emperor (2000) and Architecture and Politics in Republican Rome (2017). Christina G. Williamson is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Groningen. Her work focuses on sanctuaries and urbanization in the Hellenistic world. She is the author of Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor (2021), editor of Sacred Landscapes, Connecting Routes. Religious Topographies in the Graeco-Roman World (2024) and editor-in-chief of Pharos. Journal of the Netherlands Institute at Athens.

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