A portion of New York City's "grid" We thoroughly enjoyed Michael Kimmelman's celebration of New York City's "gri...
Showing posts with label ancient Rome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ancient Rome. Show all posts
Decadent Culture - the Rome Connection
Readers, bear with me. There is a Rome connection. Design of monocled figure, from The Chap-Book (1894) The picture at right is a represent...
A Slave Climbs a Tree: A Story on the Origins of Common Law
Guest blogger Riley Graebner is a clerk at the U.S. Court of International Trade, located in New York City. While a student at Georgetown U...
Jazz, Ancient Statuary and 20th-Century Dynamos
As most of you blog-readers must know by now, we're jazz aficionados, and Rome hosts wonderful jazz concerts at every level and taste. R...
Rome Noir
Although Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective novels are mostly set in the desert basin of Los Angeles, we think he would appreciat...
Another mountain to climb: Testaccio, from Roman detritus
Monte Testaccio, the "mountain" that is the unusual high point in the former slaughterhouse neighborhood of Testaccio, is an archa...
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