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Angelica Zampaglione

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The Lioness at the Capitol

Angelica Zampaglione

Submitted to Contest #318

The Lioness at the Capitol When Rome conspired against Caesar, it was his wife who became the lioness. In this reimagining of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Calpurnia refuses to remain the silenced, fearful wife history remembers. When her ominous dream foretells Caesar’s death, she dons disguise and dagger, stepping into the Senate itself to confront betrayal and fate. Fierce as a lioness, she claims her place in Rome’s story — and in her husband’s destiny. My name is Calpurnia, though all the world doth know me as the wife of Gaius Julius Ca...

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