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108. From the Cattle Market to the Palatine and from Aeneas to Romulus
Get Ready for Rome - April 18, 2024 17:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsAfter 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. Later still, Caesar and his adopted son Augustus presented Aeneas and Romulus as precursors of...
107. The Two Temples of the Forum Boarium
Get Ready for Rome - April 05, 2024 21:29 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsThe two temples in the Forum Boarium as illustrations of Rome’s cultural flux over the ages.
106. The Forum Boarium and Rome's Mythical Prehistory
Get Ready for Rome - March 27, 2024 20:38 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsThere 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 ancestors met and began to form the people from whom the Romans would descend, or so at least Livy an...
105. The Making of Modern Italy
Get Ready for Rome - March 17, 2024 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsToday 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 moment about its meaning.
104. Where are we?
Get Ready for Rome - May 02, 2023 13:05 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsIf 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?
103. A Pope's View of a Modern Problem
Get Ready for Rome - January 17, 2023 14:55 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsPopes 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 Regensburg Address to see what it says about modern Rome.
102. The Secularism of Modern Rome
Get Ready for Rome - December 29, 2022 22:35 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWe 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.
101. Michelangelo's Last Judgment
Get Ready for Rome - December 15, 2022 17:03 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsToday we introduce Michelangelo's "Last Judgment," his vast fresco painted on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.
100. The Four Corners of Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling
Get Ready for Rome - December 01, 2022 19:38 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsThe four Pendentives of Michelangelo's Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel represent four different dramatic stories from the Old Testament. What are these stories, and what do they teach?
99. The Subjects Represented on Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling
Get Ready for Rome - November 17, 2022 13:18 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWe know that Michelangelo's painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was an extraordinary achievement, but what subjects does he represent and what teaching do they convey?
98. The Design of the Sistine Ceiling
Get Ready for Rome - November 03, 2022 23:23 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsMichelangelo used painted architecture and numerous nudes to divide the Sistine Chapel ceiling into separate panels and give it a complex design. Today we summarize the elaborate arrangement he came up with.
97. Botticelli’s Facing Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel
Get Ready for Rome - October 20, 2022 16:51 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsMichelangelo dominates the Sistine Chapel, but the chapel's walls feature twelve frescoes by the previous generation of great Florentine artists. We look at two by Botticelli as an introduction to all twelve.
96. Reintroducing the Sistine Chapel
Get Ready for Rome - October 07, 2022 22:16 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWe return for a second introduction to the Sistine Chapel and outline some of the main challenges Michelangelo had to overcome in painting the ceiling.
95. The Overlooked Side Walls of the Sistine Chapel
Get Ready for Rome - July 14, 2022 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsThis episode introduces the twelve frescoes on the side walls of the Sistine Chapel, which invite a comparison between the lives and laws of Moses and Jesus.
II.9 The Overlooked Side Walls of the Sistine Chapel
Get Ready for Rome - July 14, 2022 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsThis episode introduces the twelve frescoes on the side walls of the Sistine Chapel, which invite a comparison between the lives and laws of Moses and Jesus.
94. Introducing the Sistine Chapel
Get Ready for Rome - June 30, 2022 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWe today make a first visit to the Sistine Chapel and look generally at the three different waves of Renaissance frescoes that decorated it. Two of these are by Michelangelo.
2.8 Introducing the Sistine Chapel
Get Ready for Rome - June 30, 2022 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWe today make a first visit to the Sistine Chapel and look generally at the three different waves of Renaissance frescoes that decorated it. Two of these are by Michelangelo.
93. The Disappearance of Ancient Rome (Part II Lanciani)
Get Ready for Rome - June 16, 2022 16:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsThe difficulty of seeing Ancient Rome is that not much of it exists. The distinguished archeologist Rodolfo Lanciani documents this, and today we compare his ways of explaining its disappearance with those of Edward Gibbon.
2.7 Lanciani and the Disappearance of Ancient Rome
Get Ready for Rome - June 16, 2022 16:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsThe difficulty of seeing Ancient Rome is that not much of it exists. The distinguished archeologist Rodolfo Lanciani documents this, and today we compare his ways of explaining its disappearance with those of Edward Gibbon.
2.6: D-Day and the Liberation of Rome, June 1944
Get Ready for Rome - June 07, 2022 00:02 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsAmerican troops liberated Rome from German occupation just 2 days before D-Day. What made it possible, and why did the liberation occur when it did?
92. D-Day and the Liberation of Rome, June 1944
Get Ready for Rome - June 07, 2022 00:02 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsAmerican troops liberated Rome from German occupation just 2 days before D-Day. What made it possible, and why did the liberation occur when it did?
2.5 The Destruction of Ancient Rome (Part I Gibbon)
Get Ready for Rome - June 02, 2022 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWe have taken an introductory look at the reasons Paganism was replaced Christianity, but why have so many of the magnificent buildings the pagans built simply disappeared? Was it simply the work of time? We begin today with Gibbon's answer to this question.
91. The Destruction of Ancient Rome (Part I Gibbon)
Get Ready for Rome - June 02, 2022 16:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWe have taken an introductory look at the reasons Paganism was replaced Christianity, but why have so many of the magnificent buildings the pagans built simply disappeared? Was it simply the work of time? We begin today with Gibbon's answer to this question.
90. Edward Gibbon on the Destruction of Paganism
Get Ready for Rome - May 19, 2022 16:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWe today consider Gibbon’s explanation of how the Christians of Constantine’s century advanced their faith by taking active measures against paganism. As he makes his case, Gibbon also extends his unflattering portrait of the followers of the new faith, perhaps to weaken their successors in his ...
II.4 Gibbon on the Destruction of Paganism
Get Ready for Rome - May 19, 2022 16:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsWe today consider Gibbon’s explanation of how the Christians of Constantine’s century advanced their faith by taking active measures against paganism. As he makes his case, Gibbon also extends his unflattering portrait of the followers of the new faith, perhaps to weaken their successors in his o...
89. Edward Gibbon on the Christianization of Rome
Get Ready for Rome - May 05, 2022 15:29 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsEdward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire advances five causes for the early Christians' triumph over their pagan and Hebrew rivals. This podcast discusses them.
II 3 Edward Gibbon on the Christianization of Rome
Get Ready for Rome - May 05, 2022 15:29 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsEdward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire advances five causes for the early Christians' triumph over their pagan and Hebrew rivals. This podcast discusses them.
88. Constantine and the Christianization of Rome
Get Ready for Rome - April 21, 2022 16:05 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsAfter noting the contradictory ways Constantine is remembered in Roman art and architecture, we turn to the main policies of this first Christian Emperor.
II.2 Constantine and the Christianization of Rome
Get Ready for Rome - April 21, 2022 16:05 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsAfter noting the contradictory ways Constantine is remembered in Roman art and architecture, we turn to the main policies of this first Christian Emperor.
1 Trailer: Season 2 of Get Ready for Rome
Get Ready for Rome - March 31, 2022 16:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 54 ratingsThis short podcast reviews our goals and announces the beginning of our second season on April 21. The subject will be Rome, Constantine, and the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
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