Assignment for Wednesday, 02-18-15

Dear Roman Readers,

For Wednesday, February 18, please do the following:

(1) Download, print, and read these portions of Stambaugh's, Ancient Roman City:

• Chapter 8: "Services, Public and Private"; and
• Chapter 12: "Social Life in the City" (pp. 201–6 only, on baths). 

(2) Read the following sections of the Blue Guide:

• The Baths of Caracalla (pp. 249--53; don't neglect the text in boxes); and
• The Via Appia Antica and Catacombs (pp. 505, 508–09 [map], 512–13).

Our focus today will be civic infrastructure, with emphasis on the physical (walls, water, roads) as well as the social.

DC