A Saturday in late February, 1971 / Paestum: On a cool, damp, but promising Saturday morning in late February, my ancient Greek history professor, Franca Camiz, led a tour to Paestum, site of a famous Greek ruin some two-hundred miles south of Rome. Here, Tony Adducci waves to me as I take a telephoto shot of the ruins.
A Saturday in late February, 1971 / Paestum: If an ancient Greek outpost in the middle of nowhere wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea, the outing at least provided a free, scenic bus ride along Italy’s celebrated southern coast, which gave sudden and dramatic views of Mt. Vesuvius, Salerno, and the Bay of Naples.
A Saturday in late February, 1971 / Paestum: Franca Camiz informed us that this Greek colony, originally called Poseidonia, had been conquered by the Romans in 273 B.C. and was renamed Paestum, which was just an unrelated Roman proper name. “But because of this inhabitation and the Roman respect for Greek art,” she said, “we have been left with both Greek and Roman ruins co-existing side-by-side."
