TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roberts,Paul
TI  - Ancient Rome in fifty monuments
SN  - 9780500025680
U1  - 937 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Thames & Hudson Inc.
KW  - Rome Civilization
KW  - Rome-History
KW  - Rome-Buildings
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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. 'What is worse than Nero? What is better than Nero's Baths?' - so wrote the poet Martial in the first century AD, demonstrating the power that buildings have on public consciousness. In ancient Rome, who built a monument and why mattered as much as its physical structure. Over centuries and under many different emperors, a small village in Italy was transformed into the crowning glory of an empire
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