See the world through their eyes on Saturday, May 12, with And So Much Traffic! Roman Poetry at the Getty Villa, a gallery course presented from 1 to 4pm at the Villa, a re-created Roman country home surrounded by the urban sprawl of Los Angeles, the ideal place to reflect on the virtues of country life.
From Juvenal’s Satire 3. 5–9; translated by Peter Green:
…myself, I’d prefer a barren island to down-town Rome: what squalor, what isolation would not be minor evils compared to an endless nightmare of fires and collapsing houses, the myriad perils encountered in this brutal city, and poets reciting their epics all through August!
And So Much Traffic! Roman Poetry at the Getty Villa will take place in the Meeting Rooms at the Getty Villa on Saturday, May 12, from 1 to 4pm. The course fee is $35; $28 students. Parking is $15 per car.