Roman Forum
Open-air ruin of the ancient world's greatest civic center, home to Caesar's cremation altar.
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This guide to the Roman Forum walks you to the spot where Julius Caesar's body arrived five days after his assassination in 44 BCE, carried on a gold-draped couch into a crowd of thousands who did not yet know what they would do. It follows Mark Antony climbing the ancient Rostra to hold up Caesar's bloodied toga, and the improvised, unplanned way the mourners in the square reacted. Listen for what veterans and ordinary Romans threw onto the fire that night.
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