Walking Tours of Ancient Rome: A Secular Guidebook to the Eternal City (Mercury Guides)

Walking Tours of Ancient Rome: A Secular Guidebook to the Eternal City (Mercury Guides)
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Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : 9780615194974
ISBN-13 : 0615194974
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Book Synopsis Walking Tours of Ancient Rome: A Secular Guidebook to the Eternal City (Mercury Guides) by : Gary M. Devore

Download or read book Walking Tours of Ancient Rome: A Secular Guidebook to the Eternal City (Mercury Guides) written by Gary M. Devore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-04-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook is designed for tourists and scholars who are interested in exploring first-hand the grandeur and magnificence that was ancient Rome through a Humanist, secular, and freethinking lens. Twelve walking tours are designed around districts of the city. Two appendices also describe day trips that are possible from the city center: the ruins of Rome's port city of Ostia and the remains of the emperor Hadrian's splendid villa at Tivoli.


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