Rome
Subtitle: The Biography of a City
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: March 1, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780140070781
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Rome (Italy); History - General History; Travel; Italy; Europe - Italy; History / Ancient / Rome; United States - West - General; History
First sentence: In the days of Augustus, the first of the Roman emperors, a young writer from Padua, Titus Livius, brought to a close the first part of his epic history of the city in which he had come to live.