Download or read book Walking Tours of Ancient Rome: A Secular Guidebook to the Eternal City (Mercury Guides) written by Gary M. Devore and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-04-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook is designed for tourists and scholars who are interested in exploring first-hand the grandeur and magnificence that was ancient Rome through a Humanist, secular, and freethinking lens. Twelve walking tours are designed around districts of the city. Two appendices also describe day trips that are possible from the city center: the ruins of Rome's port city of Ostia and the remains of the emperor Hadrian's splendid villa at Tivoli.