Following in the footsteps of Caesar...or more likely Cato, considering the uneven and uncomfortable pavement (for our non-classicist audience, Cato thought that the forum should be paved with pointy cobble stones, so that the Romans wouldn't become soft and lazy!).
The Arch of Septimius Severus was one of Aud's favorites.
We also got to visit with Nero a bit more. He was displayed inside the Curia, which is not always open to the public. Also open thanks to the Emperor was the Temple of Romulus.
Nero would have loved the fact that he was finally getting due recognition!!
Superstar Nero! Maybe he just wanted to really shine, hence all the sun god images that look a lot like Nero!
Lots of columns and lots of people! The house of the Vestal Virgins was also open. It has a lovely little garden, just below some massive construction on the side of the Palatine. Aud thought that these buildings in the slope of the Palatine were far more fascinating than the buildings on the top.
Some virgines maximae still enjoying their garden!
Hadrian's Temple of Venus and Roma is also open to the public now. Lex is getting to see lots of new stuff this trip and of course it is all new to Aud. Lex has never heard Aud use the words "magnificent" and "magnitude" so much.
That's a big temple!
Lex assured Aud that this hunk of concrete on the Palatine is cooler than it looked. It's the foundation of the Temple of the Magna Mater, who was imported in the 3rd century B.C. from what is now northwestern Turkey to save the Romans from the Carthaginians.
"So life-like...besides the creepy blank eyeballs"
The "stadium".
"Look! The Colosseum!"
The alleged rotating dining room from Nero's Golden House. There was nifty video showing in a shed next door, but it sounds like they have a lot more work to do to figure out what is going on here for sure.
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I'm excited that the House of the Vestals is open! Yippee!
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