Agnes Crawford, licensed guide in Rome
Understanding Rome
20 episodes indexed · 5 hours
Presented by Agnes Crawford
Crawford guides in Rome for a living, and this is the city itself: what a building was for, who paid for it, and what happened on the ground you are standing on. Twenty episodes running from before the founding to the Pantheon, numbered as Parts and then as Episodes, which is one series and not two. Five hours, and the only show here that covers topography.
Where to start. Part I, then in order. It is a walk. Before the Beginning · 13 min
I feel like…
ThinkingAny
Cogitare, how it was thought and ordered
FeelingAny
Sentire, what was lived and endured
DoingAny
Facere, what hands made and did
PeriodAny
when it happens
LengthAny
how much time you have
All 20 episodes, in order. Every title links straight to the episode.
- Before the Beginning13m
- The Lapis Niger and the Heart of Government14m
- Etruscan Places and the end of the Kingdom18m
- The "Servian" Wall of the Early Republicongoing
- Hunting Hannibal, traces of the Punic Wars in Rome15m
- Sulla and the Tabularium17m
- Laocoön and His Sons16m
- The Ara Pacis Augustae18m
- The Ships of Caligula at Lake Nemi17m
- Insouciant exoticism and engineering triumph - Porta Maggiore and the Claudian Aqueduct15m
- Nero's Golden House15m
- The Colosseum24m
- The Arch of Titus15m
- Paranoia and Porphyry: Domitian and the Domus Flavia on the Palatine Hill18m
- The Domus Tiberiana16m
- The Forum of Nerva11m
- Trajan's Column16m
- Trajan's Harbour at Portus13m
- Exoticism and Empire at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli14m
- The Pantheon19m