{"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. 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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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[17],"coauthors":[761],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad","category-italy-2021","tag-italy-high-school"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Walking on the same road as Caesar and Cleopatra! by Brandy Stark - Center for International Programs<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/walking-on-the-same-road-as-caesar-and-cleopatra\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Walking on the same road as Caesar and Cleopatra! by Brandy Stark - Center for International Programs\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Coliseum. 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