Catherine Fletcher: The Roads To Rome

Name: Catherine Fletcher: The Roads To Rome
Author: Fletcher, Catherine
ISBN: 9781847928047

by Fletcher, Catherine

ISBN: 9781847928047

Published: 2024-06-13

History

'All roads lead to Rome.' It's a medieval proverb, but it's also true- today's European roads still follow the networks of the ancient empire and continue to grip our modern imaginations as a physical manifestation of Rome's 'extraordinary greatness'. Over the two thousand years since they were first built, the roads have been walked by crusaders and pilgrims, liberators and dictators, but also by tourists and writers, refugees and artists. As channels of trade and travel, and routes for conquest and creativity, Catherine Fletcher shows how the roads forever transformed the cultures, and intertwined the fates, of a vast panoply of people across Europe and beyond. The Roads to Rome is a magnificent journey into a past that remains intimately connected to our present. Travelling from Scotland to Cadiz to Istanbul and back to Rome, we meander and march through a series of nations and empires that have risen and fallen. Along the way, we encounter spies and bandits, scheming...

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