A Year in Pictures – Roman Forum

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You have to understand: I am a dyed-in-the-wool Latin geek. Not the most knowledgeable one, not by a long stretch, but I did NJCL competitions in high school, up to the national level in Certamen. The origins of my Latin geekery lie even further back, courtesy of an Odyssey of the Mind project in fifth grade where the problem we chose was “Pompeii.” So for me, going to Italy was like a pilgrimage, and the Roman Forum was my shrine. To actually walk on the Via Sacra and see the remnants of all those old monuments . . . it was a dream come true.

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Yes. I was there when I was 10 - having had a good dose of Roman History in an International School. First our guide was a bit irritated that I was finishing his stories, then he figured out that I was genuinely interested - and the two of us left my folks flapping in the historical breezes! (He had retired back to the old country after a working life as a fruit vendor in the Bronx!)
The place really felt like it had been full of people in togas or tunics only yesterday.
It was one of the high points of my childhood.