Assignment for Wednesday, 02-11-15

Dear Readers of Rome,

For Wednesday, February 11, please do the following:

(1) Visit and read the Site reports page of our website and familiarize yourself with the details and dates. Please note any questions and come to class prepared to ask them.

(2) To prepare for our class on pleasure, sport, and spectacle, please read the following sections in the Blue Guide:

• Colosseum (pp. 105–9);
• Crypta Balbi (pp. 137–9);
• Stadium of Domitian/Piazza Navona (pp. 177–8);
• Theater of Pompey (p. 212);
• Theater of Marcellus (pp. 233–4);
• Circus Maximus (p. 248); and
• Circus of Nero (p. 413, second paragraph: "In the middle of the piazza...").

(3) Using your Streetwise Rome Map or the maps in the back of the Guide, try to pinpoint all of these locations.

If you missed class and didn't get the handout of important ancient Roman dates, download it here.

DC