Here was Rome. Modern walks through the ancient city

Modern walks through the ancient city.
Viktor Sonkin — philologist, specialist in Western European and Slavic literatures, journalist, simultaneous translator, and teacher, one of the leaders of the Borisenko — Sonkin seminar (MSU), whose participants prepared anthologies of detective novellas «Not... Only Holmes» and «Just Not the Butler». This book arose at the intersection of the author's two main passions — antiquity and travel. It can be read as a guidebook, or as a story about one of the main places on earth. The author aimed to follow in the footsteps of enlightened amateurs, in love with the Eternal City, such as Goethe, Byron, Gogol, Dickens, Mark Twain, Pavel Muratov, and Peter Vail. The capital of all-powerful popes, a gem of the Renaissance and Baroque, the city of Michelangelo and Bernini will shine through almost every page, but the main content of the book «Here was Rome» is a story about ancient times, about the city of Romulus, Caesar, and Nero.