Geology and Settlement: Greco-Roman Patterns

by Dora P. Crouch

This study explains the Greco-Roman urban form as it relates to the geological basis at selected sites in the Mediterranean basin. Each of the sites--Argos, Delphi, Ephesus, and Syracuse among them--has manifested in its physical form the geology on which it stood and from which it was made.
"By demonstrating the dependence of a group of cities on its geological base," the author writes, "the study forces us to examine more closely the ecology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195083245
• ISBN13: 9780195083248
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"