Mediterranean cities : historical perspectives / edited by I. Malkin and R.L. Hohlfelder.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Bollards and men / David J. Blackman -- The 'city of the blind' and the founding of Byzantium / lrad Malkin and Nino Shmueli -- Akko-Ptolemais : a maritime metropolis in Hellenistic and early Roman times, 332 BCE-70 CE, as seen through the literary sources / Nadav Kashtan -- Procopius, De Aedificiis, 1.11.18-20 : Caesarea Maritima and the building of harbours in late antiquity / Robert L. Hohlfelder -- Literary sources and numismatic evidence of maritime activity in Caesarea during the Roman period / Joseph Ringel -- The strategic and commercial importance of Jaffa, 66-69 CE / George T. Radan -- Archaeology and history at Tel Michal / Ze'ev Herzog -- The ecology of maritime success : the puzzling case of Amalfi / Barbara M. Kreutz -- Labour in thirteenth-century Genoa / Steven A. Epstein -- The Venetian port of Candia, Crete (1299-1363) : construction and maintenance / Ruthi Gertwagen -- Humanism on the sea / Ennio Concina -- A modem perspective : the recent development of port cities in Southern Europe / Armando Montanari -- Testimonium Cicero, The republic, 2.5-9 : 'on the disadvantages of a maritime city' / Rachel Vishnia.

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