About the book: 2016 / Ancient Rome during the heyday of the empire is much more similar to a modern metropolis than we might think. One and a half million of its residents faced the same problems as their descendants two thousand years later: the high cost of housing and traffic jams, the influx of immigrants and the need to “grease” city officials... Alberto Angela is a famous Italian paleontologist, archaeologist, author of several best-selling books in the scientific genre. -popular literature and educational television programs invites its readers to cover themselves with an invisible hat and spend the whole day, from dawn to dusk, in Rome 115 AD: hang out on a crowded street and look into the Colosseum, attend a court hearing and luxurious baths, taste gourmet dishes and enjoy conversation at a dinner party. And end the day on a love bed - nothing has changed here in two thousand years either..