THE LIFECYCLE OF CITIES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD - (G.) Woolf The Life and Death of Ancient Cities. A Natural History. Pp. xviii + 499, ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Cased, £25, US$34.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-966473-3.

‘Princely seats’ and Thessalian hillforts: pre-urban Greece and the diffusion of urbanism in Early Iron Age Europe

“…With little discernible urbanism in mainland Greece prior to the late fourth century BC, it appears likely that urban-like settlements appeared first in the western Mediterranean and temperate Europe. It was only in the early Hellenistic period that cities became common in Greece via a deliberate political programme that aimed to make the economy more effective by transforming village communities into taxable urban centres (Boehm 2018;Rönnlund 2023).…”