Life in Pompeii

September 16th 2005
The first week of classes was basically a week’s worth of walking and sightseeing (as I’m sure most weeks will be, now that class has really started…but at least I’m getting a little Mediterranean sun!). Monday was my first humanity’s class - Urbs Aterna: Rome in Literature. We discussed Livy’s “The Early History of Rome”. This summer, I was kinda bothered that I had to read so ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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Katie Elizabeth

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I’m a fourth year architecture major at the University of Arkansas (Go Hogs!). I’ll be spending the semester in Italy, as I am participating in our school’s study abroad program in Rome. “If I look at some excellent statue, I say within my heart: "When will you be able to remove the excess from a block of marble and reveal so lovely a figure hidden therein? When will you know how to mix different colors and spread them over a canvas or a wall and represent all visible objects by their means, like a Michelangelo, a Raphael, or a Titian?” -Galileo Galilei “Dialogue Concerning the Two ... full info

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