Table of Contents

Introduction: Inside the City in the Greek World (Laura Preston and Sara Owen) Scaling Up: From Household to State in Bronze Age Crete (Carl Knappett) Social and Political Aspects of Urbanism in Middle Minoan I-II Crete: Towards a Regional Approach (Ilse Schoep) Daidalos' Designs and Ariadne's Threads: Minoan Towns as Places of Interaction (Jan Driessen) Town Planning in Palatial Mycenae (Elizabeth French) Post-Palatial Urbanization: Some Lost Opportunities (Irene Lemos, Antonia Livieratou and Marina Thomatos) The 'Thracian' Landscape of Archaic Thasos (Sara Owen) The Classical Greek Cemetery: A Barometer of Citizenship? (Anthony Snodgrass) The Urban Plan of Thourioi: Literary Sources and Archaeological Evidence for a Hippodamian City (Emmanuele Greco) Domestic Facades: A 'Feature' of the Urban Landscape of Greek Poleis? (Lisa Nevett) Space and Identity in Hellenistic Beirut (Nadine Boksmati)

About the Author

Sarah Owen is a lecturer in the Department of Classics and Cambridge University with research interests in Greek archaeology, particularly culture contact and exchange and Greek 'colonisation' and urbanism.