Are We Rome? (edit title/settings)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Are We Rome? Friday, July 17, 2009.

• IMAGINE THE SCENE: a summer day, late in the third century A.D., somewhere beyond Italy in the provinces of the Roman Empire, perhaps on the way to a city like Sirmium, south of the Danube, in what is now Serbia, where several roads converge — good Roman roads of iron slag and paving stone.