Rich John, Wallace-Hadrill Andrew (eds.) City and Country in the Ancient World

Routledge, 1992. — 328 p.The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world of citie, in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre.This volume of papers written by influential archaeologists and historians seeks to bring together the two disciplines in exploring the city-country relationship.John Rich is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Nottingham. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading.