An Audio Guide to Ancient Rome
Companion site to the podcast series
Transcript: You’re listening to an Audio Guide to Ancient Rome. This episode is one in a series of short descriptions of monuments in the Roman Forum. In this episode I’m describing the Temple of Vesta. The Temple of Vesta was integrated into the adjacent House and Sanctuary of the Vestal Virgins. The only remains of…
Transcript: You’re listening to an Audio Guide to Ancient Rome. This episode is one in a series of short descriptions of monuments in the Roman Forum. In this episode I’m describing the Temple of Roma and Venus. The Temple of Roma and Venus was designed and commissioned by the Emperor Hadrian. Building started in the…
Transcript: You’re listening to an Audio Guide to Ancient Rome. My name is Daron Green. This intro and the next 15 podcast episodes are all relatively short – typically 5-10 minutes long with each focused on a specific building or area in the Roman Forum – note that there is an interactive google map…
Transcript: This description and tour starts in the Pizza della Rotonda (that’s the open square just north of the Pantheon). Before going inside its useful to understand something of the Pantheon’s history and design, this is best done by standing in the square, some distance away from the front portico and to one side of…