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John Julius Norwich presents a sweeping tour of forty great cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations—and which in turn have shaped our own.

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 grea

A work of history, but also about art and architecture, trade and commerce, travel and exploration, economics and politics, this is above all a book about peopl

This book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities' chief characteristics.