Okay, so my mom told me to write about what I learned from Famous Men of Rome. This isn’t chronologically ordered, by the way. Here we go! So, um, there was the dude named Julius Caesar. You’ve probably heard of him. So he was leisurely strolling down the street, when up comes this weird fortune teller guy. He’s got one message for Caesar, and it ain’t good. “Beware the Ides of March!” he says, A.K.A. March 15th. I’ve survived a...
Read More »Okay… So there was this dude called Horatius. And there was this bridge built across the Tiber. Anyway, the new king of Rome (Publius Valerius) was having some problems with this banished guy called Tarquin. (Who was the king a few years back.) So Tarquin united with the Etruscan king, Lars Porsena. For some reason, I keep on thinking of Owen Lars whenever I hear that. The Etruscans planned to cross the Tiber on the bridge. Of course, the Romans started tearing it...
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