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About the Course

Studying ancient - as well as medieval or modern - cities basically means telling local urban stories based on the reconstruction of changing landscapes through the centuries. Given the fragmentary nature of archaeological evidence, it is necessary to create new images that would give back the physical aspect of the urban landscape and that would bring it to life again. We are not just content with analyzing the many elements still visible of the ancient city. The connections between objects and architectures, visible and non visible buildings, which have been broken through time have to be rejoined, to acknowledge the elements that compose the urban landscape. Landscape and its content are a very relevant and still vital part of any national cultural heritage. The course will introduce students to the way we have been reflecting on over the last twenty years and still are engaged with the study of the past of our cities, beginning from the most complex case in the ancient Mediterranean World: the core of Italy and of Roman Empire. On the other hand, knowledge means also preservation and defense of material remains and cultural memory. “The Changing Landscape of Ancient Rome. Archeology and History of the Palatine Hill” presents to a large public the topographical lay-out of the most relevant part of the city (according the Greek and Roman Historians Rome was founded on the Palatine). Research developed on the Palatine since the end of last century by the team of Sapienza Classical Archaeologists opened a new phase in the urban archaeological investigation and in the scientific debate about the relation between archaeological features and literary tradition as well as the “correct use“ of both kind of evidence, key issues of wide archaeological and historical significance....

Top reviews

CS

Mar 21, 2018

I’m now living in Siena so visiting Roma and it’s wonderful ancient architecture especially the Roman forum and the palatine hill has new excitement and knowledge for me.

JC

May 1, 2018

I appreciate the opportunity to learn the history of Rome and how it became the marvel city it is today . I will enjoy a lot more my next trip to Rome. Thank you .

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By Alexander R

May 19, 2018

Great Course to understand the founding and aspects of the roman empire. Pretty good.

By sadek M

Sep 27, 2019

Interesting course with profound knowledge about Roman archaeology

By Eliano F

Jun 15, 2018

Very, very interesting. I wish to have more handouts

By Rebeca P M

Aug 17, 2017

It is a great course to know ancient Rome

By Magda B

Nov 30, 2017

Very interesting and detailed class.

By Carmen S

Apr 1, 2019

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By Andrés C B

Jul 13, 2017

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By James S

Nov 29, 2023

I enjoyed the course overall, but do think that it could benefit from some slight tweaks to make it more accessible to those without an understanding of Latin and/or Italian or for anyone who has not previously studied the Classics or Ancient History. The assignments should also be reviewed as they contained a number of questions that were not covered during the lessons. A list of optional reading would go a great way to familiarising participants with a basic understanding of ancient Rome without having to extend the length of the lessons.

By Guey-Mei

Mar 21, 2021

The content is great, but the teaching (language, material, quizzes) are CHAOTIC. Maps are important for this course, but they are NOWHERE to be found. Quizzes are problematic, often pointing to either wrong answers (contradicting to the videos) or minute details that weren't mentioned at all. The language is confusing as well, as the lecturer did not provide description of the slides and maps, therefore the transcripts are no help at all.

By John B

Aug 15, 2017

Graphics were interesting but did not focus on what the professor was saying. The professor was sincere and seemed knowledgeable though his speech impediment became distracting very quickly. Overall, having visited the Palatine several times over the years, I found the course very helpful in giving me a feel for physical aspects of so much of what I have read about ancient Rome in history and literature. Thank you for the opportunity.

By San

Oct 13, 2020

I was excited to take this course, eager to hear Prof. Carafa. However all of his knowledge, all of the work that went into creating this valuable course, was degraded by the very bad English text and subtitles. So many mistakes! 100+. Some are significant, some are comical, none are excusable. So five stars for the professor, no star for the transcriber.

By Judith H

Aug 4, 2020

I've taken several course dealing with this subject and definitely found this class informative, but the professor was difficult for me to understand and particularly towards the end I questioned whether the quizzes had any relationship to the lectures. Perhaps I didn't hear correctly. Speaking of hearing, the translations were not the best either.

By JRDegan

Jan 15, 2023

I think the structure could have been "tighter". Also, the questions in the quizzes were sometimes based on information that was only available in the presentation diagrams, but those images were often a bit fuzzy and hard to read. It would be helpful if we could download decent copies of all those images.

By Andrew O M

Jul 29, 2019

Great content, especially for serious archaeologists. While understandable for the most part, the presentations in second-language English at times lagged.

By Michelle N

Jul 11, 2020

Found a lot of translating errors which made the course a little frustrating. Overall learnt a lot about Ancient Rome.

By David J W

Dec 24, 2018

Lost interest, couldn't finish. Probably could have read a book on the subject and saved myself the time.

By Leticia L

Jun 12, 2017

Curso interesante y entretenido

By Ygor K B

Feb 19, 2019

very good

By Jonathan G

Feb 16, 2018

some of the quiz questions have nothing to do with the course! I know I was about archaeology but it seemed more conducive to Roman architecture than anything else. This course was misleading.

By Parsa L

Jul 12, 2021

Questions on quiz are completely different than things talked about. Ridiculous! Took many hours of watching videos to decipher what he was specifically hinting on.

By Massimo R

Mar 24, 2019

Maps are terrible. Close Captioning non existent at times. English pronounciation is bad. The subject is interesting though

By Maureen C

Jul 3, 2020

Topic of interest but hard to follow poor English of professor. Better use subtitles and Italian

By Zak A

Dec 16, 2023

The quizzes don't always relate to, or are answered by the videos in the right section

By Marlene C

Feb 16, 2018

No transcripts, difficult to understand the audio.

I thought this was a course about history turns out its a course about AutoCAD and needs software I can't install.

First quiz is on content not in the video, the video was about installing AutoCAD.

By Elaine D

Mar 17, 2021

English translation is very poor. Test questions aren’t covered well in lecture.

I found this curse very frustrating and not very enjoyable.