Lives of a Roman Neighborhood

In this book, Paul Jacobs traces the history of a neighborhood situated in the heart of Rome over twenty-five centuries. Here, he considers how topography and location influenced its long urban development. During antiquity, the forty-plus acre, flood-prone site on the Tiber''s edge was transformed from a meadow near a crossroads into the imperial Circus Flaminius, with its temples, colonnades, an...