Visitor's Guide Ancient Rome

Visitor's Guide Ancient Rome
Title Visitor's Guide Ancient Rome PDF eBook
Author Lesley Sims
Publisher
Total Pages 0
Release 2015-11
Genre Rome
ISBN 9781474903325

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This guide includes vital information for tourists visiting Rome - famous attractions, where to shop and places to eat are combined with background facts about politics, history and the art and architecture of each period.

Your Travel Guide to Ancient Rome

Your Travel Guide to Ancient Rome
Title Your Travel Guide to Ancient Rome PDF eBook
Author Rita J. Markel
Publisher Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages 104
Release 2004-01-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780822530718

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Takes readers on a journey back in time in order to experience life in ancient Rome, describing clothing, accommodations, foods, local customs, transportation, and notable personalities.

A Visitor's Guide to Ancient Rome

A Visitor's Guide to Ancient Rome
Title A Visitor's Guide to Ancient Rome PDF eBook
Author Lesley Sims
Publisher Usborne Books
Total Pages 0
Release 1999
Genre Ancient Rome
ISBN 9780746030646

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A guide to Ancient Egypt containing information every tourist of past ages needs to know. Where to shop and places to eat are combined with facts about politics, history, art and architecture.

The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Rome

The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Rome
Title The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Rome PDF eBook
Author Jonathan W. Stokes
Publisher Penguin
Total Pages 162
Release 2019-08-20
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1101998105

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From the publishing house that brought you the Who Was? books comes the next big series to make history approachable, engaging, and funny! The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Rome contains information vital to the sensible time traveler: • Where can I find a decent hotel room in ancient Rome for under five sesterces a day? Is horse parking included? • What do I do if I’m attacked by barbarians? • What are my legal options if I’m fed to the lions at the Colosseum? All this is answered and more. There is handy advice on finding the best picnicking spots to watch Julius Caesar’s assassination at the Roman Forum in 44 BC, as well as helpful real estate tips to profit from the great Roman fire of AD 64. There are even useful recommendations on which famous historical figures to meet for lunch, and a few nifty pointers on how to avoid being poisoned, beheaded, or torn apart by an angry mob. If you had a time travel machine and could take a vacation anywhere in history, this is the only guidebook you would need!

A Visitor's Guide to Ancient Rome

A Visitor's Guide to Ancient Rome
Title A Visitor's Guide to Ancient Rome PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Total Pages 0
Release 2009
Genre Rome
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Pagan Holiday

Pagan Holiday
Title Pagan Holiday PDF eBook
Author Tony Perrottet
Publisher Random House
Total Pages 418
Release 2009-05-06
Genre Travel
ISBN 0307558908

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The ancient Romans were responsible for many remarkable achievements—Roman numerals, straight roads—but one of their lesser-known contributions was the creation of the tourist industry. The first people in history to enjoy safe and easy travel, Romans embarked on the original Grand Tour, journeying from the lost city of Troy to the Acropolis, from the Colossus at Rhodes to Egypt, for the obligatory Nile cruise to the very edge of the empire. And, as Tony Perrottet discovers, the popularity of this route has only increased with time. Intrigued by the possibility of re-creating the tour, Perrottet, accompanied by his pregnant girlfriend, sets off to discover life as an ancient Roman. The result is this lively blend of fascinating historical anecdotes and hilarious personal encounters, interspersed with irreverent and often eerily prescient quotes from the ancients—a vivid portrait of the Roman Empire in all its complexity and wonder.

A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics

A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics
Title A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics PDF eBook
Author Neil Faulkner
Publisher Yale University Press
Total Pages 303
Release 2012-04-24
Genre History
ISBN 0300160291

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The essential handbook for the 21st-century citizen seeking a lively guided tour of the ancient Greek Olympics. Travel back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. Enter this distant, alien, but still familiar culture and discover what the Greeks did and didn’t do during five thrilling days in August, 388 B.C. In the Olympic Stadium there were no stands, no shade—and no women allowed. Visitors sat on a grassy bank in the searing heat of midsummer to watch naked athletes compete in footraces, the pentathlon, horse and chariot races, and three combat sports—wrestling, boxing, and pankration, everyone's favorite competition, with virtually no rules and considerable blood and pain. This colorfully illustrated volume offers a complete tour of the Olympic site exactly as athletes and spectators found it. The book evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of the crowded encampment; introduces the various attendees (from champions and charlatans to aristocrats and prostitutes); and explains the numerous exotic religious rituals. Uniquely detailed and precise, this guide offers an unparalleled opportunity to travel in time, back to the excitement of ancient Olympia. “Splendidly captures the excitement, the razzmatazz, the intensity, glamour and squalor of the ancient Olympics. Packed with anecdotes and intriguing facts, the careful scholarship behind this wonderful little book is presented with gusto.”—Philip Matyszak, author of Ancient Athens on Five Drachmas a Day “Ultimately the ancient Olympics were more of an epic frat party full of booze and sex than a prestigious sporting competition, and Faulkner paints that picture well.”—Moira E. McLaughlin, The Washington Post