Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome

Tucked away in the bibliography of this book is a reference to “Dudley, D.R. 1967 Urbs Roma: A Source Book of Classical Texts on the City and its Monuments London”. It must have been in my second year that Professor Dudley gave us a short course on the buildings of ancient Rome, complete with plans, illustrations of reconstructions and, of course, texts. That was very much a bricks-and-mortar (or given Augustus’s famous boast, perhaps marble) course, concentrating on the buildings and their construction. How much more there is to the whole subject of ancient Rome as a city is extraordinarily...