Roman Daily Life in Petronius and Pompeii

FAIN: FV-231298-15

Gustavus Adolphus College (St. Peter, MN 56082-1485)
Matthew Panciera (Project Director: February 2015 to April 2017)

A three-week seminar for sixteen school teachers on Roman daily life as portrayed in Petronius’s Satyricon and in archaeological and epigraphical evidence in Pompeii.

This summer seminar will provide teachers with an opportunity to read in Latin Petronius' Satyricon and examine the archaeological and epigraphical evidence in Pompeii. We will do this with an eye to understanding more clearly the daily lived experience of people living during the Roman Empire.