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Once again, I find myself behind in blogging. There are only three weeks (including this one) left in the semester! Hard to believe...just when I'm getting the hang of it all, I have to leave. Oh well.

Here's a brief synopsis of one of the past four weeks (not including our week trip to Campania last week).

Week 9 took us to the Roman Forum, yet again, but this time we got to see some Flavian buildings (the Flavians were AWESOME, except that little mistake of destroying the Temple in Jerusalem. Whoops). I did my site presentation on one of their monuments, the Arch of Titus (the guy who set fire to the temple, supposedly on 'accident'), and we got the see the granddaddy of all Roman monuments, the Colosseum.

Wall Painting at house on Palatine

garden at Domitian's Palace

Arch of Titus!

IN the Colosseum...seats for Senators

Proof I'm in Rome

Bones of animals found during excavation

We had permission to go underneath!

hehe...Arch of Titus from the Colosseum

Arch of Constantine

One of my profs took this picture...this road was cut through a spur of a hill by Mussolini to connect his monument (white thing in back to the left) to the Colosseum

A sticker, I swear.

At the Palazzo Massimo...

The Terme Ruler
Pieta of Augustus
The Discus throwers
Sleeping Hermaphrodite (remember that word, Uncle Paul). Can't post the pic of the other side for obvious reasons
Opus Sectile Floor

(Sorry about the weird underline...for some reason I can't get it to go away). Here are some shots from Art History. Bleh. I'm so done with that class! :)

A Borromini Facade

Bernini's Fountain of the 4 Rivers

Borromini Lantern

Finally...the Pantheon isn't crowded!

Only a few posts left! Stay tuned...