Charles Gates has recently retired as Senior Lecturer of archaeology and art history at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. A classical archaeologist with a particular interest in the Aegean Bronze Age and early Greek archaeology, he is now taking part in the preparation of the final reports of the excavations at Kinet Höyük (Turkey), a Bronze and Iron Age port city in the northeast corner of the Mediterranean.

Andrew Goldman is Professor of ancient history at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington. A specialist in Roman archaeology, he is preparing a monograph about Gordion (central Turkey) during the Roman Empire.

Introduction; PART 1: Cities of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean: Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Iron Age; 1. Neolithic Towns and Villages in the Near East; 2. Early Sumerian Cities; 3. Mesopotamian Cities in the Late Third and Second Millennia BCE; 4. Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization; 5. Egypt of the Pyramids; 6. Egyptian Cities, Temples, and Tombs of the Second Millennium BCE; 7. Aegean Bronze Age Towns and Cities; 8. Anatolian Bronze Age Cities: Troy and Hattusa; 9. Cypriots, Canaanites, and Levantine Trading Cities of the Late Bronze Age; 10. Near Eastern Cities in the Iron Age; 11. Phoenician and Punic Cities; PART 2: Greek Cities; 12. Early Greek City-States of the Iron Age (Eleventh-Seventh Centuries BCE); 13. Archaic Greek Cities, I: The Doric and Ionic Orders of Greek Architecture, and East Greek Cities to the Ionian Revolt; 14. Archaic Greek Cities, II: Athens and Sparta; 15. Greek Sanctuaries: Delphi and Olympia; 16. Athens in the Fifth Century BCE; 17. Greek Cities and Sanctuaries in the Late Classical Period; 18. Hellenistic Cities; PART 3: Cities of Ancient Italy and the Roman Empire; 19. Greek Cities of Magna Graecia; 20. Etruscan Cities; 21. Rome: From its Origins to its Expansion; 22. Rome during the Late Republic; 23. Rome in the Age of Augustus; 24. Italy Outside the Capital: Pompeii and Ostia; 25. Rome After Augustus: Imperial Patronage and Architectural Revolution; 26. Roman Provincial Cities; 27. Late Antique Transformations and the End of the Ancient City.