Apologize for skipping a day its been very busy lately but that means there is a lot to write. Additionally I have 2 sets of videos that I will post one from my camera and another from my friend Sara. Right now though I’ll post on my camera until Sara lets me get here vid files. She has some really funny clips of events that happened today.
For day 2 we visited the sites near the center of Rome I will list them as we went to them and there are many pictures I will attach. Although, there is many more photos I’m just putting a good collection I took. The rest and the ones of others students I will post when I return to the USA.
To begin we stated at the campus amrtius heading toward the jewish ghetto. We were taking this path to head toward our first main attraction the porticus of octavia. The porticus of octavia is a narrow porticus built in 146 BCE by Metellus and rebuilt by Augustus somewhere from 25-27 BCE. We learned Augustus was a strange man who believed he was the first among equals and tried to make himself the second Romulus. He also sent poets who were bad to jail for sucking. Along with other more historical quirks such as not naming anything he built after himself and being one of the few educated men of his time that did not enjoy writing.
Afterwards, we saw the Theater of Marcella which was built by Caesar but not named after him because he was killed :( (Dyeing sux). We made a short stop here mainly to learn a bit on building materials like travertine and Tufa. From here we went to the Temple of Apollo Medicus Sosianus, which means Apollo the Healer and was built at 431 BCE, then rebuilt again at 335 BCE since the Gauls kept attacking it and then again restored again at 179 BCE.
These road tours were actually just sidesteps to the forum holitorium which contained three main buildings:
Name: Janus
Built: 260 BCE
Juna Sospita
197 BCE
Spes
259-249 BCE
Following the same path we saw the Auguraculuam which is a bird watching place. Interesting story about this, it turns out that the Gauls went to attack the Romans once and the watch dogs didn’t bark but the geese made enough noise to warn them. So to be grateful to the geese for saving the day they made a holiday were they carried them around in a lavish manner while having crucified dogs behind them.
Then we visited to small temples the Fides which means faith and Ops which means abundance. These segwayed to the main temple, the Jupiter Optimus Maximus which means Jupiter the Best and the Greatest. This temple was made in an etruscan style and stood for 1200 years. Most of the photos are of the above location and the temple Jupiter Feretrius which means Jupiter to Strike.
After all this we finally headed back home. However, We had invited all the girls over for dinner and only about an hour to cook. So we spilt up into groups to buy products at the store while I bought the main ingredients for the main course and started prepping the main food. I had Jon cut up the meat, Toka in charge of the cheese, Hui in charge of the garlic sauce and fruits and Jared in charge of the bread. We all had a good time and I’ve added videos about it below. Some of the videos are really funny, we even ended up singing the berries and cream song from the starburst commercials.
All the Pictures I made Into a Mosiac.
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