The Rock of Arles

by Richard Klein

Founded 2,600 years ago on a massive limestone eminence, the city of Arles has been the home of Roman emperors and captured slaves, pagan temples and Christian spires, bloody revolutionaries and powerful papists. In The Rock of Arles Richard Klein relays the history of the city as told to him by the Rock, its genius loci, which infallibly remembers every moment of its existence, from the Roman conquest of Gaul to the fall of feudal aristocracy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478025727
• ISBN13: 9781478025726
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"