Heiken / Funiciello / Rita The Seven Hills of Rome

A Geological Tour of the Eternal City
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4937-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Heiken, Grant

Funiciello, Renato

Rita, Donatella de

Weitere Mitwirkende

Veltroni, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Walter Veltroni vii

Preface ix

CHAPTER 1: A Tourist's Introduction to the Geology of Rome 1

Timelines 18

CHAPTER 2: Center of the Western World--The Capitoline (Campidoglio) Hill 27

CHAPTER 3: Palaces and Gardens--The Palatine (Palatino) Hill 37

CHAPTER 4: The Aventine (Aventino) Hill 51

CHAPTER 5: The Tiber Floodplain, Commerce, and Tragedy 59

CHAPTER 6: The Tiber's Tributaries in Rome--Clogged with Humankind's Debris 85

CHAPTER 7: The Western Heights--Janiculum, Vatican, and Monte Mario 110

CHAPTER 8: The Celian (Celio) Hill 123

CHAPTER 9: Largest of the Seven Hills--The Esquiline (Esquilino)153

CHAPTER 10: Upper Class--The Viminal (Viminale) and Quirinal (Quirinale) Hills 162

CHAPTER 11: Field Trips in and around Rome 174

The Seven Hills of Rome in Fifteen Stops 174

Panoramas, Piazzas, and Plateaus 195

A Field Trip to Rome, the City of Water 216

Acknowledgments 229

Further Reading 231

Index 237

Über Autor(innen)

Grant Heiken is a past president of the International Association of Volcanology. He is the author or co-author of several professional and general-interest books on geology, including Volcanoes: Crucibles of Change (Princeton). Renato Funiciello is Professor of Geology at the University of Roma Tre and Vice President of the National Institute for Geophysics. Donatella De Rita is Professor of Field Geology and the Geology of Volcanic Areas at the University of Roma Tre.