Love Among the Castelli Romani
The Castelli Romani are a cluster of hill towns just to the southeast of Rome. This podcast reviews a good new book that explores four of them shows how travel can stimulate our thinking as well as ou...
18 Dec 202418min
108. From the Cattle Market to the Palatine and from Aeneas to Romulus
After two episodes on the Forum Boarium, we move up to the Palatine Hill. At the same time, we move from Rome's distant prehistory and Aeneas to its founding by his descendant Romulus, the son of Mars...
18 Apr 202415min
107. The Two Temples of the Forum Boarium
The two temples in the Forum Boarium as illustrations of Rome's cultural flux over the ages.
5 Apr 202414min
106. The Forum Boarium and Rome's Mythical Prehistory
There is scant evidence regarding the prehistory of Rome, but the Romans supplied this defect by handing down and codifying engaging myths. Today we visit the Forum Boarium, where Rome's distant ances...
27 Mars 202417min
105. The Making of Modern Italy
Today is March 17, the anniversary of the proclamation of the birth or making of modern Italy. It seems strange to me that this anniversay is largely overlooked, so I invite listeners to think for a m...
17 Mars 202413min
104. Where are we?
If the Sistine Chapel reflected the moral vision of Christian Rome, is there any such coherent view in Modern Rome of how we humans should understand our purpose and live our lives?
2 Maj 202317min
103. A Pope's View of a Modern Problem
Popes have frequently attacked the moral, political, and intellectual developments that gave birth to modern Italy. On the occasion of the death of Pope Benedict, we today review his controversial Reg...
17 Jan 202321min
102. The Secularism of Modern Rome
We return today to the "secular" or non-religious character of modern Rome in order to see more clearly how much the Rome of the People has changed from the Rome of the Popes.
29 Dec 202222min
