WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD?  ITALY – Appendix B

Rome and environs

i – Walking the Appian Way: a stroll through time on Rome’s ancient road

ii – Rome of the Republic: The Story of Archaeology’ is a new exhibition at the Capitoline Museums in Rome. On display are fragments of the pediment of Temple A in Largo Argentina, an array of anthropomorphic statuettes from the votive deposit at Minerva Medica, and some exceptional architectural terracottas from a temple on the via Latina

iii – The Surprising Etruscan Influence on the Early Celts

iv – Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered 24 beautifully preserved bronze statues dating back to ancient Roman times in thermal baths in Tuscany, in what experts are hailing as a sensational find. Most of the statues date to between the 2nd century BC and the 1st century AD, a period of “great transformation in ancient Tuscany” as it switched from Etruscan to Roman rule

iv – Visit an Ancient Roman Aqueduct in La Rinascente Department Store Basement

v – Emperors’ Stress During Rome’s Civil War Revealed by Doctored Gold Coins

vi – The Catacombs of Commodilla in Rome will open to the public for the first time require a special permit, which is theoretically possible but difficult to obtain. To find out how to go about doing that, check out the Commission’s website

vii – Eleven years after the Risorgimento that reunited Italy in 1861, Rome ensconced a living she-wolf in a small cage on the Capitoline hill in Rome. Cristina Mazzoni (2012: 80-81), in her work on the myths and receptions of Rome’s lupa (she-wolf), states that this practice lasted about a century, until the 1970s

viii – Circus Maximus: one more star in the Ancient Rome 3D-verse. The Italian capital is increasingly leaning on virtual reality as the new tourism frontier

ix – Rome opens Largo Argentina site to visitors for first time

x – Augustus and the Power of Inscriptions

xi – TRAVELING THE VIA APPIA – Ancient Rome Live. Eight part YouTube series on the Via Appia featuring well known sites like Terracina and Capua as well as places and bridges you’ve never seen before!

xii – Aeneas arrives at Rome’s Imperial Forums

xiii – From L.A. to Rome, Ancient Sculptures Get Hero’s Welcome. Three statues were returned to Italy after the J. Paul Getty Museum discovered they had been looted. They will be displayed temporarily in Rome before heading to Taranto, Italy, their permanent home

xiv – Tivoli Day Trip from Rome – Hadrian’s Villa & Villa d’Este

xv – Rare find by UB archeologist provides new insight into Etruscan life under Rome

xvi – Fascist Architecture in Rome – JSTOR Daily

xvii – Ancient home, prayer room open at Rome’s Baths of Caracalla. The frescoes coming from the sacellum, a small votive chapel, of a two-story home, or “Domus,” dating from around 134-138 AD that was partially destroyed to make way for the construction of the Caracalla public baths, which opened in 216 AD

xviii – Domus Aurea, 22/06/2023-14/01/2024 “The Beloved of Isis. Nero, the Domus Aurea and Egypt” temporary exhibition

Pompeii, Herculaneum and environs

i – Pompeii: relief of snake indicates position of Lararium

ii – A Roman ‘industrial laundry’ and a house with an oven emerge from the new excavations in Pompeii

iii – (Twitter) Digital Maps of the Ancient World on Twitter: “Explore the Roman city of Herculaneum using this DigitalMap

iv – Vast subterranean aqueduct in Naples once ‘served elite Roman villas

v – New “witchcraft” artifacts found in Pompeii’s House of Magical Rites/Trovati nuovi reperti “stregoneschi” nella Casa dei riti magici di Pompei 

vi – House of Upwardly Mobile Slaves Opened in Pompeii. The House of Vettii

vii – Freedmen and Slaves in Pompeii: new discoveries

viii – Detailing a disastrous autumn day in ancient Italy The Plinian eruption of Mount Vesuvius around 4,000 years ago—2,000 years before the one that buried the Roman city of Pompeii— left a remarkably intact glimpse into Early Bronze Age village life in the village of Afragola excavated over an area of 5,000 square meters

ix – Ancient water system uncovered at Roman Stabiae

x – A computational platform for the virtual unfolding of Herculaneum Papyri

xi – Check out the must-see new discoveries at ancient Pompeii

xii – The House of the Vettii in Pompeii has been installed with solar panels that imitate the look of terracotta roof tiles – what a brilliant idea!

xiii – A spectacular Greek necropolis complex at Sanita, just outside Naples, opened to the public in June 2022, and the world was finally able to see the stunning tombs that were carved into the volcanic tufa rock by the ancient Greeks who colonized the area

xiv – Archaeologists have uncovered one of the best-preserved Greek tombs in Italy in the ruins of the ancient Greek colony of Cumae 

xv – The Roman Villa of Oplontis – Time Travel Rome

xvi – ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE UNCOVERED A SECTION OF MOSAIC FLOORING IN ROMAN POMPEII THAT WAS ABANDONED FOLLOWING THE EARTHQUAKE OF AD 62

Elsewhere

i – The Nemi Temple

ii – Roman Era Harbour Equipment Discovered in Istrian Waters Puglia, which most likely served the nearby ancient oil mill as part of the operational piece of coast for loading and transporting oil by sea

iii – The Acropolis of Calabria: The Greko. Time stands still, tranquillity, and peace engulf you. This is in Southern Italy where the remnants of an ancient Greek community continue to speak and live like a Greek, Calabria. Not long most of Calabria spoke Greko. The people are mostly of ancient or Byzantine Greeks and the region’s topography is like that of Greece. Magna Graecia

iv – Ancient Roman Roads Still Have a Mysterious Effect, Even When They Vanish. The team reports a “remarkable pattern of persistence” between Roman road routes and modern economic activity, despite much of the original infrastructure now having gone completely

v – Iron Goblets and Etruscan buccheri discovered in the necropolis of Orvieto

vi – The Rex Nemorensis and the Cult of Diana at Nemi

vii – Hidden chamber discovery in the underground Hellenistic necropolis of Neapolis

viii – Did the Etruscans Have An Anatolian Origin?

ix – Pre-Roman temple dated end of c. C6th BC & 115 feet long x 147 feet wide. Discovered at Vulci

x – Columns of Selinunte’s largest temple to be rebuilt. Experts already at work; regional govt allocates 5mn euros

xi – Underwater Roman remains discovered off Ponza coast

xii – Who Crushed the Carthaginians in Sicily 2,500 Years Ago? Not Exactly the Greeks 

Armour

i – Exact replica of early Roman armour c.400BC created

ii – Gladiator Helmets: 6 Types and their Characteristics