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For journalist Addis, Rome's essential quality is as a palimpsest, a site of constant erasure and rewriting. He selects the most cinematic moments from millennia of Roman history to examine the mythos of the "eternal city." What emerges are grand and troubled personalities, and history that dwells more in seedy backroom gossip than serious historiography. This is not to say the book is not se...Log In or Sign Up to Read More