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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…
Thinking Any Cogitare, how it was thought and ordered
Government4 Archaeology5 Religion2 Myth and legend1 Art, music and letters5
Feeling Any Sentire, what was lived and endured
Power struggle4 Games and spectacle1
Doing Any Facere, what hands made and did
Battle3 Engineering12 Money and trade1
Period Any when it happens
The kings3 The Republic3 The late Republic3 The Pax Romana13 The third-century crisis2 Christian Rome1 The fall of the west1
Length Any how much time you have
Under 45 min19 Ongoing1
All 20 episodes, in order. Every title links straight to the episode.
Before the Beginning + Player 13m The Lapis Niger and the Heart of Government + Player 14m Etruscan Places and the end of the Kingdom + Player 18m The "Servian" Wall of the Early Republic + Player ongoing Hunting Hannibal, traces of the Punic Wars in Rome + Player 15m Sulla and the Tabularium + Player 17m Laocoön and His Sons + Player 16m The Ara Pacis Augustae + Player 18m The Ships of Caligula at Lake Nemi + Player 17m Insouciant exoticism and engineering triumph - Porta Maggiore and the Claudian Aqueduct + Player 15m Nero's Golden House + Player 15m The Colosseum + Player 24m The Arch of Titus + Player 15m Paranoia and Porphyry: Domitian and the Domus Flavia on the Palatine Hill + Player 18m The Domus Tiberiana + Player 16m The Forum of Nerva + Player 11m Trajan's Column + Player 16m Trajan's Harbour at Portus + Player 13m Exoticism and Empire at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli + Player 14m The Pantheon + Player 19m