The Forum (Foro Romano)

Nose in the guidebook, looking studious

It was a very hot day. 
Here's Gana cooling off in the freshly flowing waters of the aqueducts.

So much to see in the Roman Forum.  The Arch of Titus, Basilica of Constantine, Temple of Antoninus and Faustina and the House of the Vestal Virgins.  But, it was so unbelievably hot that it's all one big sweaty blur!

Here is where they burned Julius Caesar's body after his adopted son, Brutus and a conspiracy of senators stabbed him.  Et tu Brute?

 It was in front of this place that Mark Anthony said (according to Shakespeare), "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.  I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."

While his body was burning, those that still loved Caesar started throwing things on the fire--anything they had in the hands.  The fire department had to put out the blaze. 

Another of Caesar's adopted sons, Augustus became the Emperor and dedicated a temple to his father, making Julius Caesar the first Roman god.