MARGINALIA

This was the view of the Parthenon, under repair, in July 2005. Quite an impressive sight!

This is a section of the Aqua Claudia outside Rome. It was taken in June 2010 by Susann Sowers Lusnia, Professor of Classics at Tulane Univ...

This is what happens when you don't prune back columns as they grow. I took this photograph in Paestum in July 2005.

Time for another posting a picture for the heck of it. This is the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aphaia in the Saronic Gulf. I too...

The first thing we visited on my very first trip to Rome as a student in 1982 was the Pantheon. This magnificent building remains my favorit...

The Flavian Amphitheater at night...a much more peaceful place than during the day. This photograph was taken by the husband of a colleague ...

For so long the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina was the first site I visited after entering the Forum Romanum. Back in the day you had to e...

This is a picture of the tumbled columns from the Temple of Zeus in Olympia, Greece. It was taken by a student (Kimberly A.) on our trip in ...

The Flavian Amphitheater, looking good after a decent scrubbing, in July 2001. The first time or two I saw the Colosseum (early to middle 1...

It has been too long since I posted a picture so I offer this image of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi: I took this photograph in July 2004 ...

Take the chill off winter and imagine yourself in the sailboat... This is the promontory at Cape Sounion, the very spot where Aegeus, fretfu...

The Roman Forum is one of my favorite places to visit. Pictured here at the base of the Capitoline Hill are the ruins of the Temple of Satur...

As I have been learning the ins and outs of blogging, I've been visiting other sites and discovered that many people include images with...