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Economics 315

Monday, January 28

Rome - Appian Way National Park


Morning bike ride through Rome's Appian Way Regional Park, built around  the first few miles of this most famous of ancient highways designed to resupply the Roman army in the field during the Second Samnite War.  We also visit the catacombs of San Sebastiano and, weather permitting, the Acqueduct Park.

appian way

Discussion Articles

Hughes, Donald. "Wildlife Depletion: Hunting Fishing and the Arena," Chapter 6 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.

Hughes, Donald. "Urban Problems," Chapter 9 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.

Hughes, Donald. "Environmental Problems as Factors in the Decline of the Greek and Roman Civilizations" Chapter 11 in Pan’s Travail. Environmental Problems of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Johns Hopkins University 1994.

Huntington, Ellsworth, “Climatic Change and Agricultural Exhaustion as Elements in the Fall of Rome,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 31 (Feb. 1917), 173-208


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