{"id":4996,"date":"2014-06-23T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2024-01-30T08:55:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T13:55:31","slug":"walking-on-the-same-road-as-caesar-and-cleopatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/walking-on-the-same-road-as-caesar-and-cleopatra\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking on the same road as Caesar and Cleopatra! by Brandy Stark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5027\" alt=\"dome\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dome.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>Coliseum. The strangest thing that we learned is that most Christians were not martyred there. However, people WERE killed there. During the lunch break the intermission show was usually of a myth. If someone died in the myth, then someone died in the re-enactment of the myth. So, a slave was usually picked to play the doomed soul.<\/p>\n<p>We also went through the Roman Forum to see quite a few marvels. We walked on the same road as Caesar and Cleopatra, stood on Julius Caesar&#8217;s rostrum (where he made speeches) and discussed Constantine at the emperor&#8217;s arch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coliseum. The strangest thing that we learned is that most Christians were not martyred there. However, people WERE killed there. During the lunch break the intermission show was usually of a myth. If someone died in the myth, then someone died in the re-enactment of the myth. So, a slave was usually picked to play &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/walking-on-the-same-road-as-caesar-and-cleopatra\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walking on the same road as Caesar and Cleopatra! by Brandy Stark<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad","category-italy-2021","tag-italy-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8923,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions\/8923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}