The Destruction of Ancient Rome
Subtitle: A Sketch of the History of the Monuments
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: December 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781402198076
Subjects: history,Art,Art Study,Ancient Rome,monuments; Art / Criticism; History / Ancient / Greece
First sentence: I WAS sitting not long ago at the southern extremity of the Palatine hill, where the remains of the palace of Septimius Severus tower a hundred and sixty feet above the level of the modern streets, and I was trying to fathom the abyss which lay open at my feet, and to reconstruct in imagination the former aspect of the place.