WEEK TWO
MON, 5/13:
AM: HERCULANEUM (**CHARTER BUS 4 – split)
PM: OPLONTIS / BOSCOREALE / STABIAE
Read beforehand:
Gazda, “Villas on the Bay of Naples: The Ancient Setting of Oplontis”
Pliny the Younger, Letter 23 to Gallus
Not Even Past: “New Digital Technologies Bring Ancient Roman Villa to Life”
Watch: Wallace-Hadrill, “Life and Death in Herculaneum”
OPTIONAL: Klemetti in Wired, “Over 70 Years of Silence from Italy’s Vesuvius”
TUES 5/14:
AM: PAESTUM (**CHARTER BUS 5)
Read beforehand: Cerchiai et al.,The Greek Cities of Magna Grecia and Sicily, pp. 62-81
WED 5/15:
AM: BUS TRIP TO ROME + SPERLONGA / MINTURNAE / TERRACINA (**CHARTER BUS)
PM: CENTRO ORIENTATION + DINNER
Read beforehand:
Favro, “Introduction” in The Urban Image of Augustan Rome (pp. 1-11)
Van Allen in National Geographic, “See the summer solstice from a Roman emperor’s party cave”
Edwards on OUP blog, “Tiberius on Capri: In pursuit of vice or just avoiding mother?”
THURS, 5/16:
AM: ROMAN FORUM / PALATINE
PM: COLOSSEUM (3 pm)
Read beforehand:
Favro, “The Republican Urban Image” in The Urban Image of Augustan Rome (pp. 42-60)
Vergil, Aeneid, Book-8 excerpt
Suetonius, Augustus, chapters 27-31
Grout, “The Roman Gladiator”
Watch “Layers of Rome” (8 min.) & “The Architecture & Engineering of Rome” (11 min.)
FRI, 5/17:
AM: FORUM BOARIUM WALKING TOUR
PM: DOMUS AUREA (2 pm) / ARCH OF CONSTANTINE
Read beforehand:
Storage and Stavrinides, Tourist’s Guide to the Arch of Constantine
SAT, 5/18:
AM: TEST #1 (9.30-11 am) + FOOD TOUR (Sant’Eustachio, Il Forno, Trapizzino, Giolitti)
Read beforehand: Study!
SUN, 5/19:
AM: SAN CLEMENTE (12 pm)
PM: CHURCH WALK: SAN GIOVANNI IN LATERANO, SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE, SAN STEFANO IN ROTONDO
Read beforehand: N/A