| #57419 in Books | imusti | 2010-09-30 | 2010-09-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.40 x1.20 x8.40l,1.49 | File type: PDF | 488 pages | Oxford University Press, USA||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| what did it look like two thousand years ago|By Bob|A frustration I've had when visiting Rome - and especially the forums/fora and Palatine - is: what did it look like two thousand years ago? The Roman Forum and Via Sacra are pretty much just paved pathways with column pedestals on either side. Why bother? This book, more than most, really explains what I am seeing - or not|||"We have long needed what no one before Claridge has provided: a synthesis, balanced and user-friendly, of all [the] recent scholarship, one that sets Roman monuments in their proper urban and historical contexts, and accurately describes what is currently kn
Capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the center of Christian Europe, the city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world. In the new Second Edition of her popular handbook, Amanda Claridge again presents an indispensable guide to all significant monuments in Rome dating from 800 BC to 600 AD, including such breathtaking structures as the Capitoline Hill, the Roman Forum, the Colosseum, the Mausoleums of Augustus and Hadrian, the Circus Maximus, and ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Rome (Oxford Archaeological Guides) | Amanda Claridge. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
