No More Water but the Fire Next Time: Excavating the Healing Landscape of San Casciano dei Bagni
Data evento
10 Dicembre 2025
This is the second in a series of lectures on Material Environments, hosted jointly by the American Academy in Rome and the British School at Rome over the academic year 2025-2026. Through several evening lectures, speakers will present new research on environments of ancient and post-Classical Rome and Italy. Changing technologies of research provide new answers to questions about the experience and effect of landscape and climate. These lectures showcase the ways in which environmental considerations recast our study of the past.
The lecture presents the most recent discoveries at San Casciano dei Bagni, between rituals and landscape surrounding the sacred hot spring. Not only thermo-mineral water played a fundamental role, but also fire. Merging water and fire this lecture presents the diachronic development of the sanctuary of Bagno Grande in a constant dialogue with nature around it.