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1) Ancient Rome
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A photo essay documenting ancient Rome and the people who lived there as revealed through the many artifacts they left behind, including shields, swords, tools, toys, cosmetics, and jewelry."--
2) Roma
Series
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
"Travelogue, memoir and outrageous cinematic spectacle converge in this kaleidoscopic valentine to the Eternal City, composed by one of its most iconic inhabitants. Leisurely one moment and breathless the next, this urban fantasia by Federico Fellini interweaves recollections of the director's young adulthood in the era of Mussolini with an impressionistic portrait of contemporary Rome, where he and his film crew are shooting footage of the bustling...
5) Ancient Rome
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes daily life of the people that inhabited Ancient Rome describing the transportation, agriculture, housing, communication, religion, innovation and technology, and social organization of the period.
10) Roman town
Author
Language
English
Description
Offers a street-by-street tour, not of an actual town, but of a composite which includes many elements typical of Roman towns throughout the Empire at the beginning of the first century A.D.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes clothes and crafts throughout the Roman Empire, from the founding of Rome through the collapse of the Empire, discussing the daily lives of the people, their technological skills, and the social and economic systems.
12) The city
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the social and economic structure of city life during the Renaissance, from about 1400 to 1600, explaining how cities varied in government, commerce, population, and culture, and how they influenced the shaping of European civilization.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Detailed illustrations with explanatory captions and narrative text survey some sites in ancient Rome, including the house of a wealthy family, the Colosseum, the Baths of Trajan, and the Temple of Jupiter.
14) La dolce vita
Series
Criterion collection ; 733
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
"The biggest hit from the most popular Italian filmmaker of all time, the film rocketed Federico Fellini to international mainstream success, ironically, by offering a damning critique of the culture of stardom. A look at the darkness beneath the seductive lifestyles of Rome's rich and glamorous; the film follows a notorious celebrity journalist during a hectic week spent on the peripheries of the spotlight." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Demonstrates life in ancient Greece and Rome, and the contributions of those cultures to modern civilization, through hands-on activities such as making a star gazer, chiseling a clay tablet, and weaving Roman sandals.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Private Life of the Romans is a historical work by Harold Whetstone Johnston, a classical historian and Professor of Latin, presenting an account of common and ordinary life of the ancient Romans during the later Republic and earlier Empire. The book provides an opportunity to see the rarely portrayed other side of life of important political figures, since there is often the need of a simple and compact description of domestic life, to give more...
