Rome: A Living Portrait of an Ancient City (Ancient Society and History)
Rome: A Living Portrait of an Ancient City (Ancient Society and History)
Stephen L. Dyson has spent a lifetime studying and teaching the history of ancient Rome. That unparalleled knowledge is reflected in his magisterial overview of the Eternal City.Rather than look only at the physical development of the city—its buildings, monuments, and urban spaces—Dyson also explores its social, economic, and cultural histories. This unique approach situates Rome against a background of comparative urban history and theory, allowing Dyson to examine the dynamic society that once thrived there. In his personal effort to reconstruct the city, Dyson populates its streets with the hurried politicians, hawking vendors, and animated students that once lived, worked, and studied there, bringing the ancient city to life for a
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Exhibits are invisible on the Kindle,
There are many photos and diagrams included in this book. However, anyone downloading the book for either his Kindle device or his computer will be disappointed to find that these reproduced exhibits are so small that they are useless. This book is a recent release on the Kindle, there are many Kindle books available that provide proper presentation of exhibits, so this defect is really unacceptable.
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