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Author: * Aurelian Junius -
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Date: Apr 6, 2008 - 13:19
Yesterday's New York Times has a curious and not-very-informative article about supposed threats to the preservation along the Appian Way. The threats may well be real enough, but this article seems unspecific and cursory -- did they decide to cut the bottom ten column inches for space reasons at the last moment? While the article is hardly worth your time, however, it is accompanied by two unusual and spectacular photographs of two of the Appian Way's most celebrated monuments -- the Villa of the Quintilli and the Tomb of Cecelia Metalla. Both photos are taken from an unusual vantage point, which is what makes them of such great interest.
I'm accustomed to seeing a few stumps and towers of the Villa of the Quintilli in the distance across a field when you're on the Appian Way itself. This photo -- which, notwithstanding the caption, I think must be taken from the Via Appia Nuovo rather than the Via Appia Antica -- shows the vast size and true grandeur and remarkable state of preservation of the Villa, which I'd never suspected, even though I'd seen it twice from the other side.
Similarly, the Tomb of Cecila Metalla is show from slightly above, and thus shows the interior of the great round drum that most of us have only seen from below, at road level.
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Two Spectacular Photos from Along the Appian Way
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