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Get Ready for Rome

Get Ready for Rome

Written by: Wayne Ambler
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 Get Ready for Rome helps the thoughtful traveler prepare to visit the Eternal City by introducing the city's main monuments and the sometimes acrimonious dialogue they imply. Add value to your visit to Rome by getting to know in advance the ideas and history that stand behind St. Peter's Basilica, the Colosseum, the Sistine Chapel and other familiar but put poorly understood sites of one of the world's greatest cities. Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
Episodes
  • Love Among the Castelli Romani

    Love Among the Castelli Romani
    Dec 18 2024
    The Castelli Romani are a cluster of hill towns just to the southeast of Rome. This podcast reviews a good new book that explores four of them shows how travel can stimulate our thinking as well as our other appetites.
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    19 mins
  • 108. From the Cattle Market to the Palatine and from Aeneas to Romulus

    108. From the Cattle Market to the Palatine and from Aeneas to Romulus
    Apr 18 2024

    After two episodes on the Forum Boarium, we move up to the Palatine Hill. At the same time, we move from Rome's distant prehistory and Aeneas to its founding by his descendant Romulus, the son of Mars. Later still, Caesar and his adopted son Augustus presented Aeneas and Romulus as precursors of the Caesars.
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    15 mins
  • 107. The Two Temples of the Forum Boarium

    107. The Two Temples of the Forum Boarium
    Apr 5 2024

    The two temples in the Forum Boarium as illustrations of Rome's cultural flux over the ages.
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    15 mins
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