City of marble is a euro style tile laying game set in ancient rome during the reign of augustus caesar in which players are powerful patrician families competing to secure the prestigious title of architect of rome.
I left rome a city of marble.
I found rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.
Description from the publisher.
Caesar upon a successful battle in the east at phranaces b.
I found rome of clay.
I found rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
I leave it to you of marble a discourse on the exemplification of greatness by augustus caesar.
Caesar s wife must be above suspicion.
The conversion was made possible by the exploitation of new marble quarries at luna modern carrara on the northwest coast of italy.
I found rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble the question is has rome really undergone reconstruction to such an extent under his rule.
Did augustus really transform the eternal city from brick to marble favro wanted to know.
To cross the rubicon et tu brute.
Alea iacta est friends romans countrymen.
According to suetonius augustus when assessing his rule said.
Beware the ides of march.
And left it a city of marble.
To this end a professor of architecture and urban planning from the university of california diane favro created a computer model of the eternal city of the time of.
According to legend augustus boasted i found rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble favro s model uses a technique called procedural modeling that automatically regenerates.
Suetonius div aug 28.
According to legend the founder of the roman empire once famously boasted i found rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble was he telling the truth or making an empty claim.
As leading citizens in this great city they influence and direct the construction of an ever expanding metropolis through shrewd.
Marmoream se relinquere quam latericiam accepisset.
Julius caesar i came to rome when it was a city of stone.