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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Map of Rome
Preface
Notes
Introduction: Thinking about Seeing
An Overview
A Work of Art of the Highest Order
Trajectories
Books on Rome
Notes
1 A Matter of Foundations
At the Ara Pacis Augustae
Romulus and Remus
Aeneas and the Origins of the Romans
Foundations
Archaic Rome
The Servian Wall
A City of Seven Hills
The Forum Romanum
From Settlement to City
Notes
2 Roma Caput Mundi
At the Theatre of Pompey
Augustan Rome
The Colosseum
Food, Farms and Gardens
The Pantheon
Bathing and Everyday Life
‘Go Thou to Rome …’
Notes
3 A Middle Age
Saxa Rubra
Christianity under Constantine
The Basilica
A Turning Point
The Roman Church in a Christian Empire
Competing for Authority
San Clemente
The Commune of Rome
Notes
4 Return to Rome
The Theatre of the World
Decades of Return
Decades of Rebirth
A Papal City
Two Projects
The Sack of 1527
A Slow Transition
Barberini and Beyond
A Monument in the Making
Notes
5 The Capital of Italy
Behind the Porta Pia
Planning for a Modern Republic
The Roman Question
Open City
From the Foro Mussolini to the XVII Olympiad
Housing the Romans
Notes
Selected Sources
Chronology
Credits
Index of Works
Index of Places
Index of Names
End User License Agreement
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