Roma Sotterranea Or Some Account Of The Roman Catacombs Especially Of The Cemetry Of San Callisto
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: January 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781432621995
Subjects: History : Ancient - Rome; Social Science / Archaeology; Ancient - Rome; Archaeology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology
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?