Rome via Brooklyn

Todays activity of the capitoline museum and hill was as the helpful blog prompt puts it; small, average, and HUGE! This is because these three words accurately describe what we saw today at the Capitoline museum. There really was no middle ground between average and huge with the statues I remember seeing, with the statue of Constantine being the main one, not really being just large. It was HUGE!

This was the head of the statue of Constantine and it was insane. For reference Constantine was the ruler who legalized Christianity within the Roman empire. This was one of the things we saw that I would consider HUGE! There were so many great and huge statues such as the one of the stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius. It was insane thinking about the hours of work that were put in to making it. When we went out to the garden we saw the large statue of Constantine holding the earth. We also saw indoors a metal statue of a tall gentleman who’s name i am blanking on right now holding a club.

Then moving on to the average of the sizes. When reminiscing about what we saw and thinking of the word average I automatically thought of this statue of the she wolf that raise the two boys, Romulus and Reemus. These are the two founders of Rome who were raised by wolves. This was also among the different rooms such as the room full of the busts. The room full of heads were super cool as I really liked the busts of Germanicus and different philosophers. We also talked about how Roman civilians lived day to day.

I do not have any pictures of any of the tiny items but there were so tiny pieces of jewelry and coins that just were so small. I do not remember much of it because like any other man I believe that size matters. i did remember the view right before my good friends Ramon and Hamood who also happen to be my room mates. My room mates presented right on this balcony terrace thing and we saw a view over looking the Roman forums and the beautiful arch of Septimius Severus. The quote I liked for todays reading was “The bronze statue of the emperor Marcus Aurelius on horseback standing on the pedestal in the centre of the square is an excellent modern replica (1997). The original, which had stood on the Campidoglio since 1538 and is still a potent political symbol to modern Romans, miraculously survived a bomb attack in 1979 but was then discovered to be deteriorating rapidly from atmospheric pollution.”. I chose this because I am a tech bro who loves meditations but also because what do you mean it got blown up like that is insane.