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Ancient Rome in fifty monuments / Paul Roberts.

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ISBN 9780500025680 (hardback)
Name Roberts, Paul, 1961- author.
Title Ancient Rome in fifty monuments / Paul Roberts.
Published London : Thames & Hudson, 2024.
©2024
Description 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps ; 26 cm
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary A sweeping new history of the city of Rome, told through its emperors and the monuments they built to make their mark on one of the great capitals of the classical world. Rome wasn't built in a day, but over several centuries and under many different emperors. This story of constant creation and renewal lies at the heart of Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments. Rome's history has been explored by countless classicists, historians, poets and authors, but rarely has its history been recounted through the building programmes of its emperors, which transformed what was once a small village in Italy into the apogee of an empire. Paul Roberts takes the reader on a historical tour of ancient Rome, from the luxurious bathhouses of Caracalla and Diocletian, the rowdy Circus Maximus and the Colosseum to monuments such as the Column of Trajan that celebrated Rome's imperial project. Roberts expertly weaves together the latest archaeological research with social and cultural history, vividly evoking the story of a city always in some way rising, falling and being rebuilt. He tells this story emperor by emperor, seeking out the personalities behind the great building projects and the very human motivations that gave rise to their construction - and destruction. When and why were they built? What did they add to the lives of the people who used them? What impact did they have on the shape of the city? Often the importance of a monument lies not intrinsically in the structure itself, but instead in the political, social or cultural developments at its foundations. Through these monuments and the emperors who built them Rome's mythical and real past are intertwined, reflecting the empire's triumphant yet often turbulent history.
Subjects Monuments -- Rome
Rome -- Civilization
Rome -- Antiquities
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