Welcome to a special new online course on the Art and Archaeology of Ancient Rome. This is David Soren along with my cocker spaniel Lana. Lana, we'd like to work, can I have a kiss? Apparently not. We'd like to welcome you to the course. And tell you a little bit about it. And so Lana if I can put you down for a minute, I'll tell the people what they're gonna be experiencing. This course has a number of features we've put in specially for you. Many segments of this course have actually been filmed with renowned professional videographer Dan Duncan on location in Italy so that we could bring you interviews and tours of famous sites and museums with noted archaeologists and art historians. There will be interactive parts of the lectures too where you can click on to some of our videos or extra features and learn more about our subject. Some of these, we hope will just be a moment of fun. But some of them will be very, very important for the course. There is a textbook too which is custom designed to fit with this course, plus a series of special movies, which you can watch either in segments or as entire films, or both. Each one of the movies is complete with its own musical score. You will also see reconstructions of Ancient Rome, which we've created just for this video. Some of them coming from our own wonderful specialists. And some of them from nationally renowned computer reconstruction designers such as Bernard Frischer and John Dobbins of the University of Virginia, John Stevens, the noted artist. In short, I want this to be a visual course. And not just a series of lectures and readings. I want you to experience something of the feeling of what it's like to be in Ancient Rome, and what it's like to be a Roman archaeologist, and how the city of Rome actually looked. For example, just click below to see an introduction to some of the things that are coming up very soon.