Unit Three. Republican and Augustan Rome.

Wednesday September 25-Friday October 4. 

Daily Itinerary:

• Tuesday, Sept. 24. Free Day.
• Wednesday, Sept. 25. Republican temples, Forum Boarium and Largo Argentina. Architecture of Empire. Italian class.
• Thursday, Sept. 26. Republican Forum, Politics and Religion: Comitium, Curia, Lapis Niger; Vesta, Regia, Castor; Basilica. Italian class.
  • • Presentation: Clodius’s Funeral in 52 BCE by Halle Brody
• Friday, Sept. 27. Augustan Forum: Divus Iulius, Portico of Gaius and Lucius, Arch of Augustus. Italian class.
• Saturday, Sept. 28. Imperial Fora, Caesar and Augustus. Italian class.
• Sunday, Sept. 29. Augustus and the Campus Martius: Ara Pacis, Mausoleum; Bellona, Marcellus, Apollo Sosianus, Porticus.
  • • Presentation: Grain Supply in the City of Rome by Alex Leibovitz
    • Presentation: Horologium of Augustus by Shawn Gayner
• Monday, Sept. 30. Free day. Rosh Hashanah. Optional trip: Tomb of the Scipios.
• Tuesday, Oct. 1. Domus Transitoria, Domus Aurea, and Colosseum; Palazzo Altemps (optional). Italian class.
  • • Presentation: Tarpeia and the Sabine Attack on Rome by Margaret Ferris
    • Presentation: Fire of Rome in 64 CE by Sophia Kocher
• Wednesday Oct. 2. Palazzo Massimo and Montemartini. Italian class.
  • • Presentation: Murder of Pedanius Secondus by Benjamin Zide
• Thursday, Oct. 3. Vatican Museums. Italian class.
• Friday, Oct. 4. Free day.

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