People live in a world of cities; reflecting on ancient models of the city as a human phenomenon offers important lessons about today's culture; an opportunity to survey the breadth of the ancient world through the context of its urban development.
The Lure of the City
Season 1 • Episode 1
Çatalhöyük—First Experiment in Urban Living
Season 1 • Episode 2
Jericho and Its Walls
Season 1 • Episode 3
Uruk—City of Gilgamesh
Season 1 • Episode 4
Mysterious Mohenjo-daro
Season 1 • Episode 5
Kahun—Company Town in the Desert
Season 1 • Episode 6
Work and Life at Deir el-Medina
Season 1 • Episode 7
Amarna—Revolutionary Capital
Season 1 • Episode 8
Knossos—Palace, City, or Temple?
Season 1 • Episode 9
Akrotiri—Bronze Age Pompeii
Season 1 • Episode 10
Mycenae, Tiryns, and the Mask of Agamemnon
Season 1 • Episode 11
Athens—Civic Buildings and Civic Identity
Season 1 • Episode 12
Athenian Domestic Architecture
Season 1 • Episode 13
Hippodamian Planning—Miletus and Ephesus
Season 1 • Episode 14
Olynthus—A Classical Greek City Preserved
Season 1 • Episode 15
Wonder and Diversity at Alexandria
Season 1 • Episode 16
Pergamon—The New Theatricality
Season 1 • Episode 17
The Good Life in Rome
Season 1 • Episode 18
The Lives of the Poor in Rome
Season 1 • Episode 19
Ostia—Middle-Class Harbor Town
Season 1 • Episode 20
Timgad—More Roman Than Rome
Season 1 • Episode 21
Karanis—On the Fringes of the Empire
Season 1 • Episode 22
Constantinople—The Last Ancient City
Season 1 • Episode 23
Lessons and Legacies of Ancient Urban Life
Season 1 • Episode 24
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