The full-color drawings of the public and private structures of Athens and Rome are a feature to the more sparse and genral description of city life (co-written by Hazel Dodge) in the classical era. The Ancient City surveys Greece of the golden years of Athens (approximately the 4th to 3rd centuries B.C.), and the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus to the reign of Septimius Severus (27 B.C. to A.D. 211). Monuments such as the Parthenon and the Colosseum are illustrated and for general readers this is an interesting volume. Other subjects of more general interest include government, contemporary fashions, home life, and entertainment.