COURSE SCHEDULE, ITINERARY, MAPS AND READINGS: WEEK ONE
*Note: Subject to change!
MON, 5/6:
ARRIVAL IN NAPLES: INDIVIDUAL TRAVEL — MEET AT NAPLES AIRPORT (BY 4 PM)
FROM AIRPORT TO VILLA VERGILIANA; DINNER AT VILLA (CHARTER BUS 1**)
TUES, 5/7:
AM: BREAKFAST + LECTURE: “ROME IN 10 WORDS” + MAP QUIZ
PM: FREE (BEACH?)
Read beforehand:
Shelton, “As the Romans Did,” pp. 1-15
Gwynn, The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction, pp. 4-24, 71-115 (online access via Vanderbilt library website)
Kelly, The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction, pp. 4-22 (online access via Vanderbilt library website)
WED, 5/8:
AM: TERME DI BAIAE
PM: CUMAE
Read beforehand:
McNearney in The Daily Beast, “How they partied in Baiae”
Watch: PBS, Secrets of the Dead: Nero’s Sunken City [1 hr]
THUR, 5/9:
AM: FREE TIME TO EXPLORE NAPLES
PM: MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE DI NAPOLI (1 pm — **CHARTER BUS 2)
Read beforehand:
Beard, “Dirty Little Secrets: Changing Displays of Pompeian ‘Erotica’”
Watch: 60 Minutes, “Deciphering the Scrolls of Herculaneum”
Marchant in Nature: “First Passages of Rolled-Up Herculaneum Scroll Revealed”
FRI, 5/10:
AM: NAPOLI SOTTERREANA (**CHARTER BUS 3)
PM: CHECK IN TO HOTEL VILLA DEI MISTERI
Read beforhand: N/A
SAT, 5/11:
AM/PM: POMPEII
Read beforehand:
Pliny, Letters to Tacitus 65 & 66
Beard, “Living in an Old City” in Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (pp. 26-52)
OPTIONAL – Watch: Mary Beard, Life and Death in a Roman Town [1 hr]
SUN, 5/12: DAY OFF