The mute stones speak: The story of archaeology in Italy

by Paul MacKendrick

Summary

Contents of Mute
Prehistoric Italy,
The Etruscans,
Early Rome,
Roman Colonies in Italy,
Nabobs as Builders,
Augustus Buildings as Propaganda,
Hypocrite Madman Fool and Knave,
The Victims of Vesuvius,
Flavian Rome,
Trajan Port Forum Market Column,
An Emperor-Architect Hadrian,
Roman Engineering, and
Caesar and Christ.

"MacKendrick writes so enthusiastically that all laymen who have a serious interest in scholarship and antiquity will delight in following his story." — New York Times Book Review