Rome from the Ground Up

by James H.S. McGregor

Book Overview

Rome is not one city but many, each with its own history unfolding from a different center: now the trading port on the Tiber; now the Forum of antiquity; the Palatine of imperial power; the Lateran Church of Christian ascendancy; the Vatican; the Quirinal palace. Beginning with the very shaping of the ground on which Rome first rose, this book conjures all these cities, past and present, conducting the reader through time and space to the complex...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022637
• ISBN13: 9780674022638
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.9"