I found the story of Rome so fascinating so if I bore you am sorry, stop reading NOW!
A vestule virgin was in charge of keeping the flame of Rome burning. It was a 30 Year job, during this term she must remain a virgin, if she didn't the penalty was being buried alive. The job consisted of 10 years training, 10 years doing and 10 years teaching. It was a sought after position as the virgin's were treated like royalty, they lived in the palace, were carried around on thrones and were very well paid.
The story of Rome: A vestule virgin gave birth to twin boys called Romulus and Remus - the Emperor at the time demanded that the virgin be sentenced to death and that the boys be taken away to the woods and killed. The guard could not bring himself to take the lives of these two baby boys so he placed them next to a pack of wolves assuming that they would do the job for him. The She Wolf suckles the babies and raises them as one of her own. Years later when the boys grew, they were very powerful and intelligent, they decided to build a city. One boy wanted to commence the city on one hill and one on the other, the boys fought and Romulus killed Remus. Romulus built the city now known as Rome.
Julius Caesar grew up in a middle class family, he was very clever and studied to become a lawyer, he started attending senate and people began to listen to him and he became more powerful. He led a battle across the seas, where nobody had taken this risk before, he knew if he failed it was certain death but if he won the battle he would be victorious. He won the battle and led his troops back home and started to rule Rome as Emperor. He became very popular with all the Romans and started to make his own decisions and not listen to the Senate. The Senate began to fear this and was concerned about Ceasar's following. His best friend Marc Antony made a pact with the other Senate members to kill Ceasar. When Ceasar returned to Senate, Marc Antony stabbed Ceasar and all the other Senate members also took turns in stabbing him, this was so that they all took the blame and not one person could be charged. One strange thing that day was, usually Ceasar was accompanied by body guards at all times, that day he was alone, some say that he knew that he was going to be murdered, he also had epilepsy which was deemed to be weak/crazy perhaps he wanted to die? Another thing was was strange, each and every one of the Senate members that stabbed Ceasar died either by murder or suicide.
This is where Julius Caesar's body was actually cremated !
This is the actual floor that the Senate walked on and made all the decisions!
The Romans gave us the Calendar, originally there were only 10 months in the year, September (meaning 7 in latin), being the Seventh month. They found that having 10 months in the year didn't allow enough time for harvesting so they added two additional months. July was named after Julius Ceaser, August was named after Augustus, Julius Ceasar's son. Orginally August only had 30 days and Augustus was jealous that his month didn't have as many days as July so Augustus pinched a day from February, hence the reason for 29 days in February.
I hope you enjoyed my mini history lesson and if I got anything wrong, my memory has failed me! Not the first time though. Have a fantastic weekend everyone, Ciao!
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