The Pantheon in the Sky and the Pyramid in the Basement: Imagining Monumental Shifts

When I take students to Rome, I try to get them to to visualize the immense scale of what the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus must have looked like on the Capitoline Hill by asking them to imagine a ‘Pantheon in the sky’. According to our typical itinerary, we would have seen the Pantheon the … Continue reading The Pantheon in the Sky and the Pyramid in the Basement: Imagining Monumental Shifts