Adriano La Regina: Rome the Monumental
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Channel: Chicago Humanities · 2010 · Education
http://chicagohumanities.org - See more Chicago Humanities Festival events. Rome is fondly known as the Eternal City, and surely no metropolis in the world better reflects the history of humankind's ambition and ingenuity. At every turn, visitors and locals come upon marvels of ancient engineering that continue to awe: generous roads, vaulting domes, immense baths and amphitheaters, winding aqueducts, and gravity-defying bridges. Adriano La Regina describes the raisons dêtre and the continuing influence of a variety of ruins along the Appian Way and elsewhere, including Neros Golden Pavilion and the Caesars palace in this celebration of Roman achievement and its continuing importance to civilization. Presented in partnership with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura
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