Duration: 3 days.

Structure: 1 theory lecture (3 hours) plus 2 full days.

Language of Teaching: Italian, English, Spanish.

Course description: Historically, both in the republican and imperial periods, worshipping ancestors has always been a common practice and a very important one, both culturally and for the different types of underground tombs that hosted the body of the ancestors. The course will analyse both columbarium and catacombs. The names of the sites to be visited will be communicated during the lectures as they can change due to the bureaucratic difficulties to access most archaeological sites in Rome.

Output: Certificate of attendance.

Cost of the course: 300,00 € (minimum of 6 participants).

Date of start: Weekly from the 1st of July.

Objectives: To describe ancestors worship in ancient Rome, with a particular focus on the differences between pagans and Christians, from 300 BC to 400 AD.

Programme: Lectures will focus on all aspects of the cult of ancestors in ancient Rome. Visits will be organised to the following sites:

• Piramide Cestia
• Pomponius Hylas Colombarium
• Isola Sacra necropolis
• Vigna Randanini Jewish catacomb

The cost will include the entrance to the sites.