POWER & ARCHITECTURE IN ROME
In March 2009, the Maine Humanities Council organized a ten-day study tour, Power and Architecture in Rome: Augustus to Mussolini. Led by classicist Peter Aicher of the University of Southern Maine, the program explored, mostly through walking tours, the ways in which rulers have used public architecture to project state power, from the imperial period to the 20th-century Fascist era.
- Interior of the Pantheon Dome
- Scholar and group leader, Professor Peter Aicher
- Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli
- Pro-Mussolini Mosaic, Foro Italico
- Altar of Augustan Peace,
in a new museum designed by Richard Maier - Capitoline Museum
- Ardeatine Caves, site of massacre by the Germans,
24 March 1944 - Temples of the Largo Argentina
- Umbrella Pines, Palatine Hill
- The Appian Way
- Outside the Cave of St. Benedict, Santo Speco
