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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.
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