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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

The Capitoline Wolf (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Blind Guy Travels host Matthew Shifrin discusses a formative encounter with a wolf tied to the origins of Rome. Listen to Blind Guy Travels: https://radiotopiapresents.fm/blind-guy-travels

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, when I was 12 years old, my parents and I, we went to Italy and we went to Rome.

0:09.9

And it was really, really cool because I came to these art museums that they had.

0:15.9

And they said, oh, you're blind.

0:18.4

And I said, yes, do you have any features that can make the museums interesting and accessible

0:23.3

to blind people?

0:24.3

And they said, yes, you can touch all our sculpture.

0:27.4

And I said, wait a minute, all of it.

0:29.4

And they said, yeah, go ahead.

0:31.2

And I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're not going to give me gloves?

0:33.7

And they were like, no, no, no gloves.

0:35.8

And I was like, okay, fine, great, awesome.

0:40.2

And so we go into this first gallery.

0:43.1

And this gallery is filled with these busts of Roman emperors.

0:47.1

And they are stone busts.

0:49.3

They are made of kind of rough, human marble that has been smoothed over with age.

0:56.3

They had all these aqualine noses and these bushy eyebrows and these big ears.

1:01.4

And we go through five galleries of this.

1:03.9

And fifth gallery, okay, we're done.

1:05.5

The exit, the exit is here.

1:07.3

We can leave now.

1:08.4

And mom says, hey, you know, I didn't realize that there is a whole upstairs section.

1:12.9

There's a stairwell here.

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