The Road of the Romans [Audiobook] download free by Romolo Augusto Staccioli
- Listen audiobook: The Road of the Romans
- Author: Romolo Augusto Staccioli
- Release date: 2006/9/2
- Publisher: GETTY TRUST PUBLICATIONS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780892367320
- Rating: 9.89 of 10
- Votes: 343
- Review by: Charles Barnett
- Review rating: 9.83 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/13
- Duration: 1H37M3S in 256 kbps (25.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-03
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA, MP4, MP3, Vorbis, MPEG4, Shorten, WAV (compression RAR, TZ, ZIP, BZ, Z)
- Total pages original book: 128
- Includes a PDF summary of 15 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 11M54S (3 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: While the ancient Romans were not the first society to construct a system of great roads, they did introduce important technical advancements and develop a highly organized and pervasive network that joined their territories in a gigantic web. Spanning over 50,000 miles and three continents, the network was a defensive matrix as well as a means to integrate the provinces into their empire. Without it, the empire would never have grown so vast or lasted as long. Beginning with the city streets of Rome, Romolo Staccioli's study progresses outward to the suburban routes linking Rome with surrounding towns; the Via Latina, the national road that was the backbone of the entire system; and the great 'consular' roads such as the Via Appia that connected Rome with the distant regions of its sprawling empire. Staccioli considers the infrastructure (bridges, viaducts, and tunnels) that supported the system as well as the facilities (rest stations as well as vehicle and sundry services) that supported its travellers. Finally, he discusses the extent to which this system survived the end of the ancient world and remained operative, with various modifications, into the modern age.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Classical History / Classical Civilisation, European History, Art Books, Transportation Books, Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology, Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- Download servers: FreakShare, BitShare, FileServe, Waistra, Torrent, Microsoft OneDrive, SendMyWay, UsersCloud, 4Shared. Compressed in RAR, TZ, ZIP, BZ, Z
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 38.54 USD
- Dimensions: 176x251x15mm
- Weight: 580g
- Printed by: J. Paul Getty Museum
- Published in: Santa Monica CA, United States
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