Liternum and transparency film

After visiting the most famous Cuma, I went again with my friend’s students to draw in Liternum, a village on a lake near the coast, where Scipio Africanus retired after having defeated Hannibal in Punic wars. His villa described by Seneca was never found but some theatre, foro and temple ruins have been escavated in 1935 and this monument was build to celebrate the event. Since the inscription desappeared from the stone, popular tradition thinks at this as “Scipio’s tomb”. The place has been a favourite spot for picnic since a few years ago.

Meanwhile, some illegal houses and farms were build around it, so that it is now impossible to continue the escavations as well has to properly close the area.

To convince students to draw as well and to get some records of the day, we tried with the transparent paper trick, and it quite worked to breake the ice – at least since it started raining.