An old adage speaks of the grandeur that was Rome. That grandeur is captured in amazing, well-documented detail in this unusual volume, which takes the form of a travel guide written in AD 143, when... This description may be from another edition of this product.
The author did a really nice job of telling about life in Rome by making the book into a travel guide supossedly written by an ancient Roman person. This way, each chapter sort of takes you on a tour of some part of Rome or Roman life, all in the first person, which makes the whole thing more interesting and appealing. I learned a lot.
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