Pagan and Christian Rome
About this audiobook
Pagan and Christian Rome comprises a parallel topographical and archaeological study of pagan and Christian Rome, showing the decline of one and the rise of the other.
The audiobook describes the transformation of Rome from a pagan to a Christian city, contrasts the pagan temples with Christian churches, pagan cemeteries with catacombs, and the tombs of the Emperors with the tombs of the Popes.
The author brings his knowledge of the subject in general to bear on those researches which have of late years made almost a new era in the archaeological history of the Eternal City; and his book is written in the same fascinating style as was his previous volume, Ancient Rome In the Light of Recent Discoveries.
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About the author
Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1 January 1845 – 22 May 1929[1][2]) was an Italian archaeologist, a pioneering student of ancient Roman topography. Among his many excavations was that of the House of the Vestals in the Roman Forum. Lanciani earned LL.D. degrees from Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Harvard and a Ph.D. degree from Würzburg.
