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ARCHITECTURE

  • Amphitheatrum (Amphitheaters, General)
  • Aqueducts (History)
  • Aqueducts General (Technology & Uses)
  • Arcus (Arches, General)
  • Basilica (General)
  • Bridges (General)
  • Introduction to Ancient Roman Architecture & Engineering
  • Roads (General)
  • Theaters (General)
  • Tombs (General)
  • Via Appia: Episode I, Walking the First 6 Miles
  • Via Appia: Episode II, Engineering the Via Appia
  • Via Appia: Episode III, Sky High Terracina
  • Via Appia: Episode IV, Walking Rome’s Oldest Road
  • Via Appia: Episode V, Capua – Where Spartacus Trained and Revolted
  • Via Appia: Introduction, from Rome to Brindisi

    • CITIES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

  • Brescia, Italy (Brixia)
  • Dating Pompeii I: The Literary Evidence
  • Dating Pompeii II: The Material Evidence
  • El Djem
  • Istanbul, Turkey (Constantinople)
  • Little known Pompeii sites
  • Ostia, Italy (Ostia Antica) – Chapter 1: An Introduction and Overview
  • Ostia, Italy (Ostia Antica) – Chapter 2: The Significance of the Site/Rome’s Reflection
  • Ostia, Italy (Ostia Antica) – Chapter 4: Daily Life
  • Ostia, Italy (Ostia Antica) – Chapter 5: Religions of the Roman World
  • Ostia, Italy (Ostia Antica) – Chapter 6: Baths and Bathing
  • Ostia, Italy (Ostia Antica) – Chapter 7: Roman Construction
  • Ostia, Italy (Ostia Antica) – Chapter 8: Death and Burial
  • Pompeii from above
  • Pompeii: A Brief Introduction from Foundation to Destruction
  • The Lost Roman City Aquinum
  • The Newest Discoveries at Pompeii
  • The Seaside Villas of Stabiae – Who Were the Owners?
  • Via Appia: Episode III, Sky High Terracina

    • CONTRIBUTIONS

  • Christians & the Roman Army
  • Dating Pompeii I: The Literary Evidence
  • Dating Pompeii II: The Material Evidence
  • Legal Tools Used to Fight the Destruction, Looting, and Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Goods
  • Pompeii: A Brief Introduction from Foundation to Destruction
  • Problematic Tourism on Ancient Roman Sites
  • Roman Literary Topography and Roman cultural memory
  • The Battle of Al Yarmouk (August 15-20 AD 636)
  • The Comitium, Quintessential Structure of Republican Rome
  • The Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Goods: A Long and Ignoble History
  • The Seaside Villas of Stabiae – Who Were the Owners?
  • The Twelve Tables

    • DAILY LIFE IN ANCIENT ROME

  • Aqueducts (History)
  • Aqueducts General (Technology & Uses)
  • Dogs in Ancient Rome
  • Insula Capitolinus (Capitoline Insula)
  • Lupercalia
  • Ostia, Italy (Ostia Antica) – Chapter 4: Daily Life
  • Ostia, Italy (Ostia Antica) – Chapter 6: Baths and Bathing
  • Seminar – Shopping in Ancient Rome
  • Seminar – Slavery in Ancient Rome
  • Seminar – The Life of a Gladiator in Ancient Rome
  • Seminar – The Mob, Crowds & The People of Ancient Rome
  • Seminar (For Kids) – Daily Life in Ancient Rome for Kids
  • Seminar (For Kids) – Jokes & Pranks in Ancient Rome
  • The Seaside Villas of Stabiae – Who Were the Owners?
  • The Twelve Tables

    • EGYPT

  • Egypt in Ancient Rome

    • GREECE

  • Ancient Greece in Basilicata

    • HILLS OF ROME

  • Aventinus Mons (Aventine Hill)
  • Caelius Mons (Caelian Hill)
  • Capitolinus Mons (Capitoline Hill)
  • Esquilinus Mons (Esquiline Hill)
  • Palatinus Mons (Palatine Hill)
  • Quirinalis Collis (Quirinal Hill)
  • Seminar – The Seven Hills of Rome
  • Viminalis Collis (Viminal Hill)

    • HISTORIC DATES IN ANTIQUITY

  • Assassination of Julius Caesar – Ides of March (March 15) – 44 BC
  • Regal Period
  • Rome’s Birthday (April 21)
  • Seminar – Antonine Plague
  • Seminar – Decline and Fall of Rome in Today’s Context
  • Seminar – Rome’s Conquest of Italy
  • Seminar – The Ludi Romani in the Circus Maximus
  • Seminar – The Myths of Rome’s Foundation
  • The Battle of Al Yarmouk (August 15-20 AD 636)
  • The Late Republic
  • The Republic

    • INTRO TO ANCIENT ROME

  • April in Ancient Rome
  • Destroying Rome
  • February in Ancient Rome
  • Geology of Rome
  • Introduction to Ancient Roman Architecture & Engineering
  • Introduction to Ancient Rome
  • Layers of Rome
  • Regal Period
  • Sources
  • The Late Republic
  • The Republic
  • The Roman Metropolis

    • LIVE LECTURES

  • Seminar – Antonine Plague
  • Seminar – Becoming a God; the Deification of the Roman Emperor
  • Seminar – Decline and Fall of Rome in Today’s Context
  • Seminar – Diversity and Peoples of the Roman Empire
  • Seminar – Pantheon Neighborhood Walk
  • Seminar – Rome’s Conquest of Italy
  • Seminar – Sacrifice & Ritual in Ancient Rome
  • Seminar – Shopping in Ancient Rome
  • Seminar – Slavery in Ancient Rome
  • Seminar – The Ides of March
  • Seminar – The Life of a Gladiator in Ancient Rome
  • Seminar – The Lives of Augustus
  • Seminar – The Ludi Romani in the Circus Maximus
  • Seminar – The Mausoleum of Hadrian (Castel Sant’Angelo)
  • Seminar – The Mob, Crowds & The People of Ancient Rome
  • Seminar – The Myths of Ancient Rome
  • Seminar – The Myths of Rome’s Foundation
  • Seminar – The Seven Hills of Rome
  • Seminar – The Walls of Ancient Rome
  • Seminar – Who Were Priests and Priestesses of Ancient Rome?
  • Seminar (For Kids) – Daily Life in Ancient Rome for Kids
  • Seminar (For Kids) – Disease in Ancient Rome
  • Seminar (For Kids) – From the Old Gods to the New
  • Seminar (For Kids) – Jokes & Pranks in Ancient Rome

    • MONUMENTS OF ROME

  • Altar of Concordia Augusta
  • Antoninus et Faustina, Templum (Temple of Faustina and Antoninus Pius)
  • Ara Pacis Augustae
  • Arch of Arcadius, Honorius, and Theodosius II
  • Arch of Portugal (Arco di Portogallo)
  • Arco della Ciambella
  • Arco di Druso (Arch of Drusus)
  • Arcus Argentariorum (Arch of Argentarii)
  • Arcus Augusti (Arch of Augustus)
  • Arcus Constantini (Arch of Constantine)
  • Arcus Domitiani (Arch of Domitian, Palatine)
  • Arcus Gallieni (Arch of Gallienus, Porta Esquilina)
  • Arcus Janus (Arch of Janus)
  • Arcus Titi (Arch of Titus, Circus Maximus)
  • Arcus Titi (Arch of Titus, Roman Forum)
  • Argiletum
  • Atrium Vestae (House of the Vestal Virgins)
  • Basilica Aemilia-Paulli
  • Basilica Constantini
  • Basilica Neptuni (Basilica of Neptune)
  • Basilica Ulpia
  • Baths of Elagabalus
  • Bernini (Elephant) Obelisk
  • Capitoline Castors (Statuary)
  • Capitoline Trophies (Tropaea Marii)
  • Circus Maximus
  • Clivus Argentarius
  • Clivus Capitolinus
  • Cloaca Maxima
  • Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre)
  • Column of Marcus Aurelius
  • Column of Phocas
  • Curia Iulia
  • Dioscuri Fountain & Statues of the Quirinale
  • Divus Hadrianus Templum, Hadrianeum (Temple of Hadrian)
  • Domus Aurea
  • Domus Tiberiana (House of Tiberius)
  • Esquiline Obelisk (Santa Maria Maggiore)
  • Forum Romanum (Roman Forum) – Forum Piazza
  • Forum Vespasian & Templum Pacis (Forum of Vespasian & Temple of Peace)
  • Hercules, Templum (Temple of Hercules, Forum Boarium)
  • Herculis, Invictii, Ara Maxima (Ara Maxima, Santa Maria in Cosmedin)
  • House of the Crescenzio Family
  • Imperial Rostra (Rostra Augusti)
  • Insula Capitolinus (Capitoline Insula)
  • Lacus Iuturnae
  • Largo Argentina (Argentina Square)
  • Lateran Obelisk
  • Madama Lucrezia
  • Mausoleum Augusti (Mausoleum of Augustus)
  • Muri Aureliani (Aurelian Walls)
  • Murus Servii Tullii (Servian Walls)
  • Odeum of Domitian (Odeon of Domitian)
  • Pantheon
  • Pantheon of Agrippa
  • Piazza Navona
  • Piso Cippus
  • Pons Aemilius (Ponte Rotto)
  • Pons Cestius (Pons Gratiani)
  • Pons Fabricius
  • Portico of Harmonious Gods
  • Portico of Santa Maria dei Calderari
  • Porticus Octaviae (Portico of Octavia)
  • Portunus, Templum (Temple of Portunus)
  • Quirinal Obelisk
  • Regia
  • Republican Portico
  • Saepta Julia (Iulia)
  • Seminar – Pantheon Neighborhood Walk
  • Seminar – The Mausoleum of Hadrian (Castel Sant’Angelo)
  • Seminar – The Myths of Ancient Rome
  • Seminar – The Walls of Ancient Rome
  • Temple of Castor and Pollux (Castor, Aedes, Templum)
  • Temple of Minerva Medica
  • Temple of Saturn (Saturnus Aedes)
  • Temple of the Nymphs
  • Temple of Venus and Roma (Venus et Roma)
  • Theatrum Marcelli (Theater of Marcellus)
  • Thermae Traiani (Baths of Trajan)
  • Tomb of Bibulus
  • Vesta, Forum (Temple of Vesta)
  • Via Appia: Episode I, Walking the First 6 Miles
  • Via Appia: Introduction, from Rome to Brindisi
  • Vicus Iugarius
  • Villa of the Gordians

    • MOST IMPORTANT PLACES AND SPACES IN ROME

  • Aventinus Mons (Aventine Hill)
  • Caelius Mons (Caelian Hill)
  • Campus Martius
  • Capitolinus Mons (Capitoline Hill)
  • Esquilinus Mons (Esquiline Hill)
  • Forum Augustum (Forum of Augustus)
  • Forum Boarium
  • Forum Holitorium
  • Forum Iulium/Caesaris (Forum of Julius Caesar)
  • Forum Nervae (Forum Transitorium, Forum of Nerva)
  • Forum Romanum (Roman Forum) – After Antiquity
  • Forum Romanum (Roman Forum) – Imperial Period
  • Forum Romanum (Roman Forum) – Introduction
  • Forum Romanum (Roman Forum) – Regal/Archaic Period
  • Forum Romanum (Roman Forum) – Republican Period
  • Forum Traiani (Forum of Trajan)
  • Forum Vespasian & Templum Pacis (Forum of Vespasian & Temple of Peace)
  • Palatinus Mons (Palatine Hill)
  • Quirinalis Collis (Quirinal Hill)
  • Sacra Via
  • Sacred Area of Sant’Omobono
  • Seminar – The Seven Hills of Rome
  • Stadium Domitani (Stadium of Domitian)
  • Theatrum Balbi (Theatre of Balbus)
  • Tiber Island
  • Velabrum
  • Viminalis Collis (Viminal Hill)

    • MUSEUMS & EXHIBITS IN ROME

  • Ara Pacis Museum
  • Capitoline Museums
  • Centrale Montemartini
  • Crypta Balbi (Museo Nazionale Romano)
  • Museo delle Terme / Museum of the Baths of Diocletian (Museo Nazionale Romano)
  • Museo Nazionale Romano (National Roman Museum)
  • Museum Week 2020 Collaboration – May 11-17
  • National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia
  • Palazzo Altemps (Museo Nazionale Romano)
  • Palazzo Massimo (Museo Nazionale Romano)
  • Roads of Arabia Exhibition 2020 (at Museo delle Terme/Baths of Diocletian)
  • The Circus Maximus Archaeological Site
  • The Early Medieval Museum “Alessandra Vaccaro”
  • The Museum of the Imperial Fora (Trajan’s Markets)

    • PEOPLE AND PERSONALITIES OF ROME

  • Agrippina the Younger
  • Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Villians
  • Antoninus Pius
  • Augustus
  • Aurelian
  • Caligula
  • Caracalla
  • Claudius
  • Commodus
  • Constantine
  • Diocletian
  • Domitian
  • Elagabalus
  • Faustina the Elder
  • Faustina the Younger
  • Galba
  • Gallienus
  • Geta
  • Hadrian
  • Helena
  • Julia Domna
  • Julia Mamaea
  • Julia the Elder
  • Julius Caesar
  • Livia
  • Lucilla
  • Lucius Verus
  • Marcus Aurelius
  • Maxentius
  • Nero
  • Nerva
  • Octavia
  • Otho
  • Plotina
  • Seminar – Diversity and Peoples of the Roman Empire
  • Seminar – The Lives of Augustus
  • Septimius Severus
  • Severus Alexander
  • The Dacian
  • The Parthian
  • The Severan Dynasty
  • Tiberius
  • Titus
  • Trajan
  • Vespasian
  • Vibia Sabina
  • Vitellius

    • RELIGION & GODS

  • Ostia, Italy (Ostia Antica) – Chapter 5: Religions of the Roman World
  • Seminar – Becoming a God; the Deification of the Roman Emperor
  • Seminar – Sacrifice & Ritual in Ancient Rome
  • Seminar – Who Were Priests and Priestesses of Ancient Rome?
  • Seminar (For Kids) – From the Old Gods to the New

    • ROMAN ROAD TRIP

  • Via Appia: Episode I, Walking the First 6 Miles
  • Via Appia: Episode II, Engineering the Via Appia
  • Via Appia: Episode III, Sky High Terracina
  • Via Appia: Episode IV, Walking Rome’s Oldest Road
  • Via Appia: Episode V, Capua – Where Spartacus Trained and Revolted
  • Via Appia: Introduction, from Rome to Brindisi

    • SOUTHERN ITALY

  • Ancient Greece in Basilicata
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