The Roman Forum [Audiobook] download free by David Watkin
- Listen audiobook: The Roman Forum
- Author: David Watkin
- Release date: 2012/8/19
- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780674066304
- Rating: 7.79 of 10
- Votes: 126
- Review by: Louisa Patino
- Review rating: 8.06 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/14
- Duration: 3H40M23S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-28
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, WMA, MPEG4, MPC, FLAC (compression RAR, TBZ, TAR.Z, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 288
- Includes a PDF summary of 33 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 24M52S (6.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: One of the most visited sites in Italy, the Roman Forum is also one of the best-known wonders of the Roman world. Though a highpoint on the tourist route around Rome, for many visitors the site can be a baffling disappointment. Several of the monuments turn out to be nineteenth- or twentieth-century reconstructions, while the rubble and the holes made by archaeologists have an unclear relationship to the standing remains, and, to all but the most skilled Romanists, the Forum is an unfortunate mess.David Watkin sheds completely new light on the Forum, examining the roles of the ancient remains while revealing what exactly the standing structures embody-including the rarely studied medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque churches, as well as the nearby monuments that have important histories of their own. Watkin asks the reader to look through the veneer of archaeology to rediscover the site as it was famous for centuries. This involves offering a remarkable and engaging new vision of a well-visited, if often misunderstood, wonder. It will be enjoyed by readers at home and serve as a guide in the Forum.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology, History Of Architecture, Classical History / Classical Civilisation, Places & Peoples: Pictorial Works, Memorials, Monuments, European History
- Download servers: Cozy, Torrent, BitShare, Degoo, pyget, Microsoft OneDrive, MEGA, FreakShare, 4Shared, Dropbox. Compressed in RAR, TBZ, TAR.Z, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.35 USD
- Dimensions: 114x184x22.86mm
- Weight: 258.55g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Cambridge, Mass, United States
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