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The famous cities of the ancient world were surprisingly small and fragile

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History Greg Woolf

OUP, pp.528, 25

Greg Woolf didn’t know his book would come out during an urban crisis. Thanks to coronavirus, Venice’s population, for example, is now somewhere between 25,000 and 40,000 — the lowest for centuries.

Horrific pandemics were nothing new for ancient cities, which, as this scholarly book shows, have gone through heady rises and catastrophic falls.

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