In chapter two of Favro’s, The Urban Image of Augustan Rome, Favro paints a picture of Republican Rome before Caesar’s Civil War and captures the tension within the branches of the government and the inefficiency of public services thereby creating decay in infrastructure. The decay Favro describes not only stops in Rome, but also applies to the situation in Pompeii in 79 CE, long after the fall of the Republic. As seen from both readings, both authors endeavored to define the topography of a city, but used different approaches to reach their point. Favro used the experience of two figures walking across the Mons Capitolinus for the last time before leaving Rome to describe in narrative form the situation of the city, while Beard relied on
