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The first one was broadcast again on RaiTre (Italian tv) only a few days ago. I'll watch the new series.

Brilliant =)

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That's what I was trying to say earlier but alas!My post was ignored I worked as a teaching assistant of Italian and Latin in a grammar school in Kent for some time. From what I've gathered only very few "upper class" schools have Latin (and Italian) in their curricula, i.e. the best grammar schools and the

Not really, the marble blocks and the bronze are still in good condition, they have guided tours of the meridiana (although, as I said before, you have to go through the basement of a house in Via di Campo Marzio). I was thinking about Roman era underground complexes (as the solarium very much used to be at the ground level) where most (or all) of the the probably few complexes are most likely to be heavily damaged or filled with mud and inaccessible. I'm having a very hard time imagining that anything like Casa dei Grifi would survive underground at the fields of Mars. Oh, sorry, I thought you were referring to the meridiana. Of course, the rest is either gone/deep in mud...everything was originally at ground level, as you pointed out earlier, and the site was soon earthed due to regular floodings from the Tiber. Well, at least Augustus' mausoleum is still standing and the Ara Pacis is safe inside a museum.

Not really, the marble blocks and the bronze are still in good condition, they have guided tours of the meridiana (although, as I said before, you have to go through the basement of a house in Via di Campo Marzio).

Would have been cool but I'm off to Naples for the week I'm not going either, flying back to England in a few days, but I attend the Natalis Romae every year (although each time they come up with something new). I recommend the members of UNRV and the visitors who are in Rome to go to the Circus Maximus for the celebrations, it is really worth it!

It is in good grammar schools and in very posh schools.

I am not sure one can call it a "network" but there sure is something in Via di Campo Marzio. Deep underground in the area were the Campus Martius once was (7 metres underground), lies the so called Solarium sive Horologium Augusti. It was a huge solar clock (meridiana) which also consisted of an egyptian obelisc (it was built to commemorate the defeat of the egyptians). We know from Pliny that soon afterwards the meridiana stopped functioning properly (it no longer gave the exact time). At present you can get there passing through someone's basement... I've heard that it is under water nowadays, do you know if this is true? (Maybe this topic should be moved to another section at some point by the way?) Yes, about 10 centimetres under water.

Oh!Our eternal Rome, city of the seven hills! Here the roads lead, the rivers flow and here is the old Capitolium. Oh!Our Rome, once kept safe by geese, was made of marble bricks by Augustus Princeps. Love (your name spelt backwards) still lasts to this age. Let us cry out "Immortal Rome, we salute you" etc... NB:Roma spelt backwards is Amor, which means love in Latin. On the day of the Natalis Romae there will be celebrations at the Circus Maximus, with legions coming from all over Europe. You are all invited to the Circus Maximus (5.30 p.m.) to celebrate the founding of Rome .

I am not sure one can call it a "network" but there sure is something in Via di Campo Marzio. Deep underground in the area were the Campus Martius once was (7 metres underground), lies the so called Solarium sive Horologium Augusti. It was a huge solar clock (meridiana) which also consisted of an egyptian obelisc (it was built to commemorate the defeat of the egyptians). We know from Pliny that soon afterwards the meridiana stopped functioning properly (it no longer gave the exact time). At present you can get there passing through someone's basement... Picture here: You can find the obelisc in today's Piazza Montecitorio.

As a roman I think I can compile a list with the less known mithraea, tombs, necropolis, colombari, etc. The burial sites are usually concentrated in the Via Appia area, for obvious reasons. Mithraea: *Mithraeum Barberini - Via delle Quattro Fontane This is one of the few mithraea in Italy with wall paintings and frescos. It has all the fascination of the castra tenebrarum. *Mithraeum of the baths of Caracalla *Mithraeum of the Circus Maximus, Via dei Cerchi 6 There is another one under the Basilica of San Clemente, but I think it is one of the most famous and best-known in Rome. Tombs/Necropoleis/Mausolea: *Tombs of the Scipios, Via di San Sebastiano 9 *Tombs of the Via Latina, Via dell'Arco di Travertino 50 *Monte del Grano, Piazza dei Tribuni *Necropolis Ostiense, Via Ostiense *Generally, the Via Appia Antica (Mausolea of Priscilla, Caecilia Metella, Romolus) *Lucilius Petus' mausoleum, Via Salaria 125 bis Columbaria: *Pomponius Hylas, Via di Porta San Sebastiano 9 *Columbaria of Via Taranto, Via Pescara 2 *Columbaria of Vigna Codini, Via di Porta San Sebastiano 13 The Catacombs AD DECIMUM in Grottaferrata are probably the less known to tourists, being outside of the city. http://www.lecatacombe.it/lazio/territorio...rata/ad-decimum I could also list the Hypogea, Nymphaea and the various temples but I am not sure they would be relevant to the topic. If you can read Italian I suggest the book "Roma Sotterranea" by Ivana della Portella.

The phenomenon you describe here (assimilation of the consonant nexus "nd" to "nn") is in no way an exclusive of Neapolitan. The same thing happens in the Roman dialect mondo>monno , Abruzzese mondo>munnu and in practically all of the dialects of central and southern Italy. If the assimilation of nd>nn was really due to the Oscan substratum then we would have to hypothesise that such substratum was extended to all of central and southern Italy, and I am not sure that is the case. I can't argue with you there. Italian or Italian dialects are not exactly my area of expertise - Portuguese is. So it's good of you to set things straight. Of course, I used "you" in an impersonal way but I should have said Wikipedia, really. My English is far from perfect as you can see . Welcome to UNRV, Aurelia, nice to have a Portuguese native speaker on the forum . By the way, for clarity's sake, my source for the previous post is: Bonomi, Elementi di Linguistica Italiana, 2003 pp. 25-26, it is an excellent introduction for those who want to deepen their knowledge of the Italian language and all of its varieties (geographical, social, historical, etc.).