Following Caesar from Rome to Constantinople, the pathways that planted the seeds of empire
"A travel narrative following three ancient roads and looking at more than two thousand years of history of Ancient Rome through the modern eye. In 66 B.C., young, ambitious Julius Caesar, seeking recognition and authority, became the curator of the Via Appia. He borrowed significant sums to restore...
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New York, NY :
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Born out of necessity
- A beginning
- Goddesses and despots
- Hitting the road
- Terracina and Anxur to Itri
- Cicero
- The City of Venus
- A very short river
- Brindisi
- A Macedonian lake
- To Pella
- From Philippi to Byzantium and back to the boot
- Nearing the end.
