The mute stones speak : the story of archaeology in Italy /
| Main Author: | MacKendrick, Paul Lachlan, 1914-1998. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
[1960]
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Mute stones speak. |
Table of Contents:
- Prehistoric Italy
- The Etruscans
- Early Rome
- Roman colonies in Italy (Ostia, Alba Fucens, Cosa)
- Nabobs as builders: Sulla, Pompey, Caesar
- Augustus: buildings as propaganda
- Hypocrite, madman, fool ,and knave
- The victims of Vesuvius (Pompeii)
- Flavian Rome (the Colosseum, the Arch of Titus)
- Trajan: port, forum, market, column
- An emperor-architect: Hadrian
- Roman engineering
- Caesar and Christ.