Nature of Late Antiques Towns
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• Late Antique – town before these changes really take hold.  Typical city model of the Principate – public buildings, baths, temple, circus, forum , broad colonnaded streets.  Planned for leisure well to do citizens also benefactors - curial classes.  Such cities seemed the embodiment of culture – Procopius describes a new city and rural population acquired : “the rural people have cast aside their plough shares and live like city dwellers, exchanging their rural lifestyle for civilization”.
• Procopius already an archaic view when he wrote it – urban style, which required public and private investment for building and maintenance.  Implied life of cultured leisure – if only for richer citizens.  Public activity: circus, forum, at the baths – temples looking over the forum implies survival of paganism.

Other Notes in this Category

1. Economy and Administration of Early Byzantine Cities
2. Financing the State
3. Interpreting Urban Change
4. Introduction and Overview
5. Nature of Late Antiques Towns
6. Settlement and Population Change
7. The Changing City
8. The Classes of Late Antique Society
9. The eastern Mediterranean – settlement and change
10. The Organistion of Labour
11. The ‘Decline of Cities’ and the end of classical antiquity
12. Trade and Traders - Economics Conclusions
13. Urban change and the end of antiquity
14. Urban Violence

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