Remains of the threshold of the Temple of Veiovis (you can see the columns to the left, the altar above the grate in the middle, and the doorway with square recesses for the doors in front of the marble wall on the right):
Afterwards, we walked to Largo Argentina (the line of Republican temples near where Julius Caesar was murdered). It is now a cat sanctuary:
Then we saw the remains of the Theatre of Pompey in the basement of the Da Pancrazio restaurant (off of the Campo de' Fiori):
...and did a long walking tour of the Circus Flaminius, which was not actually a sports arena like the Circus Maximus, just a defined space with something like eleven temples around it. It is now entirely built over, with little bits of antiquity sticking up here and there:
We had the early afternoon free. Walked back to the Centro with a few people and grabbed pizza on the way up the Janiculan.
At 4 we visited the AAR Study Collection with Katherine Geffcken (Professor Emerita, Wellesley College), who spoke about the collection and then gave us a half-hour talk on coins (with pretty specimens for show and tell, too). Turns out she's been trying to get Alan Stahl (Princeton numismatics curator) to come catalogue their hoards from medieval Venice - his specialty. Given that he's now full-time at Princeton, I somehow doubt he'll make it over here in the near future, though.
Dinner: Risotto ai quattro formaggi | Spezzato di tacchino all'ischitana | Crostata di mele
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