Have you ever seen the greek theatre where live romans used to battle gladiators? Imagine, a huge stadium filled hundreds of rows made up of stone and a huge platform, that is obviously empty now, but wasn’t back in 27 BC. The theater was first used for religious use, however later changed to purely entertainment, especially when gladiatorial games were introduced into the theater.Thousands of Romans used to come to the theater anxious to see who would be brave enough to conquer the beast. When the announcer would walk across the stadium, and rally the entire crowd with excitement and rage, they knew their life would never be the same, since they were going to witness something completely dangerous and absolutely crazy.
While I was in Siracusa, (Syracuse) Sicily, last month, I saw many other historical relics. After twenty minutes of gazing at the theater, my father and I decided to explore the Ear of Dionysus, which is an ancient, enormous, dark cave shaped like an ear. I had heard so much about this cave, but never knew I, out of all people, would get to go in there. As we walked out of the cave, we could see so many more caves in the far distance. Turns out, those caves were where many romans used to live thousands of years ago! I also got to see where these Romans farmed and even swam, and no there was no water in the pools. But, it was so cool to see how the Romans made houses and an entire town out of rock.
This amazing experience had taught me so many things about my past, mainly because my entire family originated from Sicily. It was incredible to see the different lifestyle and landscape and felt as if I had jumped into my latin textbook.
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