The roads to Rome : a history
Fletcher, Catherine, 1975-2024
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Brimming with life and drama, this book explores two thousand years of European history through one of the most important imperial networks ever built. 'All roads lead to Rome.' It's a medieval proverb, but it's also true: today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire and continue to grip our modern imaginations as a physical manifestation of Rome's 'extraordinary greatness'. Over the two thousand years since they were first built, the roads have been walked by crusaders and pilgrims, liberators and dictators, but also by tourists and writers, refugees and artists. As channels of trade and travel, and routes for conquest and creativity, Catherine Fletcher shows how the roads forever transformed the cultures, and intertwined the fates, of a vast panoply of people across Europe and beyond.
Main title:
The roads to Rome : a history / Catherine Fletcher.
Author:
Fletcher, Catherine, 1975-, author
Imprint:
London : The Bodley Head, 2024.©2024.
Collation:
viii, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781847928047 (paperback)
Dewey class:
937
LC class:
DG28
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
794923