Romance of Imperial Rome
Elizabeth W. Champney
Paperback
(Forgotten Books, June 10, 2017)
Excerpt from Romance of Imperial RomeFor here is the beautiful Barberini Juno, patroness alike of empresses and of all noble women, here the god of brute force, Hercules, too highly venerated by Roman men, - with the Emperor Hadrian appropriately waver ing between the sway of the masterful deity and that of Ceres, goddess of peaceful country life, who calls him to his Tiburtine villa.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.