When in Rome ..

The Eternal City

Not quite the eternal city but an approximation of what it might once have been. Spike and I visited the delightful, leafy campus of the Australian National University so I could buy the core text book for my film studies course: The Film Experience by Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White.  It's $79 by the way. Not cheap, I say, for a slim volume. I wonder how students with less disposable income than untypical yours truly find the cash for books like this and more. Maybe they don't.

On our way back to the car from the pleasant Co-op Bookshop we called into the Classics Museum of the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics to have a look at its small collection of glass artefacts, mostly from the first and second Centuries A.D. Adjacent to the cabinet of oil vials, bowls, dishes and a tumbler in glass there sits the large model of ancient Rome above.. Veni, vidi, vici ... after a fashion.