Augusto Fraschetti describes the legends surrounding the origins, foundation and early history of Rome, the significance the Romans attached to the legends of their origins, and the uses to which they put them.Between 1000 BC and 650 BC a cluster of small, isolated groups of thatched huts on the Roman hills became an extensive and complex city, its monumental buildings and large public spaces evidence of power and wealth. Two competing foundation legends accounted for this shift, one featuring the Trojan fugitive Aeneas and the other the wolf-reared Romulus and Remus. Both played a significant role in Roman thought and identity, preoccupying generations of Roman historians and providing an important theme in Roman poetry.In the last two centuries the foundation era of Rome has been the subject of extensive investigations by archaeologists. These have revealed much that was previously a mystery and have allowed the piecing together of a coherent account of the early history of the city. Professor Fr

Product Description: Recent major excavations in the Palatine East of Rome uncovered fragments from some 2,100 African cookware vessels which dated from c.AD 270-550. Although cooking pots are often overlooked in favour of finer tablewares, this study stresses the importance of the humble cooking pot as `one of the most important inventions in the history of technology'...read more

Product Description: A report and synthesis of the ceramic evidence from the Swiss Institute of Rome's excavations (1984-87) of the domus Tiberiana , Tiberius' palace overlooking the Roman Forum. Krause discusses the historical and geographical context of the building and its stratigraphy before presenting an interpretation of the ceramic material and a catalogue of finds...read more

Product Description: "The Foundation of Rome is one of the few intelligent books on the subject, neither hypercritical nor visionary; its particular strength lies in the skillful interweaving of modern historiography and ideology with ancient history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An illustrated look back at ancient Rome discusses the remnants of a once-flourishing civilization--including the Colosseum, the Pantheon, and Diocletian's baths--and its twenty centuries of pillage. Original.

Product Description: Rodolfo Lanciani's eyewitness accounts of archaeological discoveries in Rome, communicated to The Athenaeum between 1876 and 1913.