Roma Sotterranea or Some Account of the Roman Catacombs Especially of the Cemetry of San Callisto
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781417974184
Subjects: Archaeology; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Rome
First sentence: THE daily-increasing celebrity of the Roman Catacombs might almost seem to render a general description of them unnecessary; for who does not know, if not by personal observation, at least from the accounts of friends or from popular literature, the leading features of that marvellous city of the dead which has received the appropriate name of Roma Sotterranea, subterranean Rome?