Translated from the original French, Boissier discusses the forum, the palantine, the catacombs, Hadrian's Villa, Ostia and Pompeii. He discusses the history and current excavations of the sites.
Alfred Baudrillart, Gustave Bloch, Gaston Boissier, Lud. Bourgine, Marcel Brillouin, Ferdinand Brunot, Costantin, Gaston Deschamps, Duclaux, E. Duclaux, Paul Dupuy, George Duruy, Émile Faguet, Th. Froment, Désiré Gernez, Henri Goelzer, Paul Guiraud, Edouard Hervé, Frédéric Houssay, Paul Janet, A. Joly, Camille Jullian, G. Kœnigs, André Lalande, Jules Lemaître, Sophus Lie, Georges Lyon, Eugène Manuel, A. Mézières, Henry Michel, Gabriel Monod, Léon Ollé-Laprune, L. Pasteur, Georges Perrot, René Rémond, Jules Simon, Jules Tannery, Etienne Vacherot, Jacques Verger, Francisque Vial, P. Vidal De La Blache, Jules Violle & C. Wolf