The Roman Forum: From Outpost to Empire in Ten Easy Centuries (in black and white)

The Roman Forum: From Outpost to Empire in Ten Easy Centuries is a unique and user-friendly guidebook to the Roman Forum in Rome, Italy. Author Daniella Hunt uses story-telling, chronological order, and visual aids (i.e. maps, photos, and prints) to make the text fun and educative. She also relies on both modern studies and ancient authors’ quotes to tell the Forum’s story. So, she presents its development, the construction techniques of its monuments, and some of its habitues’ lives with great synthesis and a sense of humor. In fact, The Roman Forum blazes a new trail in its genre. It combines history and humor, while dispensing hard facts with great levity. This guidebook’s approach pleasantly surprises readers as they discover that learning about ancient Roman history and archeology is actually fun. So, if you’re looking for an entertaining read that is informative and will take you back in time, Daniella Hunt’s The Roman Forum is for you!