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Rome from the ground up
By McGregor, James J.
- ISBN
- 978-0-67401-911-9
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2006
McGregor (comparative literature, Univ. of Georgia) has written an informative architectural history of Rome, a cumulative portrait that can serve as a walking guide to the city as well. Some have described Rome as a palimpsest, a metaphor McGregor believes is of limited use. Rome was not a sequence of cities built on top of another, but a series of ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
