Lined with tombs and funerary monuments, the Appian Way was Rome’s most important road of the dead, where memory, status and identity were set out for all to see.
In this special tour, Dr Eireann Marshall begins along this ancient route before passing behind the gates of a privately owned farmhouse, where an extraordinary survival of imperial Rome remains in situ. Hosted by owner Mr Pio Pellegini, we are granted rare access to the Columbarium of Augustus’ Freedmen, still embedded within the fabric of the former villa, offering a quietly powerful insight into the lives and afterlives of those who served the first Emperor.
Dr Eireann Marshall is an Honorary Research Associate and Associate Lecturer with the Open University. Raised in the Veneto, she was educated in Barnard College, Columbia University, in New York, as well as the Universities of Birmingham and Exeter in England, where she has lectured. Learn more about Eireann and her upcoming tours here: https://academytravel.com.au/tour-leader-dr-eireann-marshall