7.3 The Economic Foundations of Ancient Urbanism
Channel: Discovering Greek & Roman Cities
Date: 01/04/2020

Most ancient cities depended heavily on rich agricultural hinterlands and the urban elites were rich landowners. This video deals with the relation between cities and their territories and tackles important questions concerning the ancient urban economy.

This video is part of the MOOC "Discovering Greek & Roman Cities" which was produced by the Strategic Partnership "Ancient Cities", a cooperation between the Christian-Albrechts-University at Kiel, the University of Aarhus, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athen, the University of Bergen, the Open University of the Netherlands and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. The University of Pennsylvania is an external partner.
The project was co-funded by the ERASMUS+ grant programme of the European Union under grant no. 2017-1-DE01-KA203-003537. Neither the European Commission nor the project's national funding agency DAAD are responsible for the content or liable for any losses or damage resulting of the use of these resources.