The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 14, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780415237017
First sentence: The ancient city, by which I mean the cities of Greece and the Roman empire, provides English with whole series of value-laden terms, normally carrying positive connotations: 'politic', 'politics', 'urbane', 'civil', 'civilization' and 'citizen'.