• HamsterRage@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Fun fact…

    There’s this block in Rome just called “Sacred Area” south-east of Piazza Ravenna. It’s an excavated area with three or four temples in it. There a plaque that says that the ancient Roman Senate chambers were just west of this area, and that’s where Caesar was going/coming when he was killed.

    Anyways, there’s a hotel right on that spot. I’ve stayed there a couple of times without knowing that I was sleeping right on top of where Julius Caesar was killed.

    Now, how cool is that???

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Funny enough, a physician of the time, who examined Caesar’s body after he died, was of the opinion that only one of the stab wounds would have been fatal had Caesar received prompt treatment.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    Bonus Points: In the confusion, some of the assassinating Senators stabbed each other by accident.

  • HamsterRage@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I’m not sure if it is a shelter or just a feral cat colony. But there sure are a lot of cats there.

    • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      https://www.gattidiroma.net/web/en/

      It’s in the southern end of the square, there should be a sign and some steps down, looks like it’s open noon-4:30. When I was there in 2019 there were a couple of rooms full of cats being sheltered for various reasons and you could go hang out with them, dunno about now.

      There’s also a cat shelter in the Non-catholic Cemetery (where Keats, Shelley, and Gramsci are buried) by the Pyramid of Cestius but that one wasn’t open to the public last I saw. Usually cats wandering in the cemetery tho.

  • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I read this meme then went back to sleep, and had a dream that I was freeloading at Cicero’s swimming pool while he wasn’t around and I woke up when I heard his wife Terentia coming home.

    (yeah I know Cicero wasn’t involved in the assassination and I dunno if he had a swimming pool but I just had to tell someone.)