Part of my study abroad trip to London and Rome in September is a series of blog posts about the things we see and do while on the trip. This is the sixth of seven required posts about Rome and is about a location connected to literature.
One of the last things we did while in Rome was to read Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar”. We did this while sitting upon the steps on the back side of the Capitoline Hill, overlooking the site of the Forum and all of its ruins.
I think it was Sarah who voiced what I suspect many of us were thinking, that we were there reading a play about Julius Caesar within sight of where he was killed and of where his body had been cremated.
Rome, more than London for me, was an experience in walking through history, through literature. But nothing during the time there put in more in perspective than that, than getting up after we were done reading the play and being able to walk to the railing and look out over the ruins of the places the story had just taken place at.