Calpurnia's Dream: Recent Episodes
Lourdes Alonso
Calpurnia's Dream" is in fact, a long, long letter that Caesar's widow writes to her late husband, showing all her pain, self-unconfidence and passionate love for him. But, simultaneously, she also reveals us a unique account of Julius Caesar's Rome through his wife's eyes, in which shamanism, historical perspective and a profound analysis of female psychology are combined. Calpurnia Caesaris, like King Arthur's Queen in "Gades y Camelot", is a highly charismatic man's sensuous wife who is still madly in love with her lord and has to face the risk of being repudiated due to her barrenness. She desperately seeks for a way of her own that might enable her to survive her crisis. Her turning point comes through a wise man and a Celtic priestess who initiate her into some kind of unusual healing which was reserved to high-ranked ladies in the past.
Calpurnia and Blodwynn decide to go to Lucius Calpurnius' villa at Pompeii in order to perform what the priestess had agreed to do. A pang of nostalgy comes over Caesar's wife while revisiting the place that had hosted her early years. That night , after a sensuous and colourful rite, Calpurnia's subtle self flies to Artarte's temple in Gades and there it meets another living force, not so unfamiliar to her, though. After that night's eerie experience, Calpurnia feels still drowned in a different atmosphere. She longs not only to be fertile but also regain that brand new sensation. Therefore, Caesar's wife will beg for Cornelia Sulla's help, which will tun out to be amazing, as the daughter of the former dictator proves to be astonishingly knowledgeable about healing
Calpurnia's frustrated attempt to get pregnant drives her back to hopelessness. Therefore, she offers Blodwynnn to erect a statue to Venus-Astarte in Rome in exchange for her help to make her womb fertile. Aware of the lady's mood in spite of the healer's warning, the outlander agrees to help her become fruitful and seductive.
Caesar unexpectedly arrives back home, arousing love-brimming Calpurnia. On their first night together after quite a long time, he lets her know about quite an uncanny thing that happened to him so many years ago, when he, still a young man, was sent as a quaestor to Spanish Baetica and shed his tears before Alexander's statue at Herakles' temple. He han seen Sulla himself living there as a retired wiseman near that holy site that was then dedicated to Astarte and would later be renamed as Venus Marina....
Calpurnia desperately seeks for Blodwynn's help so that she may finally get rid of her barrenness and beget a child that could eventually prevent her from being repudiated, The young priestess' doing drives her to envisions herself far away from Rome, facing the Goddess of Wisdom and Sensuous Fertility in her temple at the Western End of the world
Calpurnia, still feeling her husband's presence hauting her, is finally convinced by Cornelia and her friends to go to Cumas, where she will meet a mysterious-looking young woman and a haruspex-looking man. The girl happens to be a medicine woman and relative to Cornelia herself
This is one of some many evenings that Calpurnia spends with her friends at Domus Publica. The three of them are remarkable Roman ladies: Cornelia Sulla, Portia - daughter to Marcus Portius Cato - and Martia - Cato's wife. But life won't be the same afterwards....
Calpurnia's Dream" is in fact, a long, long letter that Caesar's widow writes to her late husband, showing all her pain, self-unconfidence and passionate love for him. But, simultaneously, she also reveals us a unique account of Julius Caesar's Rome through his wife's eyes, in which shamanism, historical perspective and a profound analysis of female psychology are combined. Calpurnia Caesaris, like King Arthur's Queen in "Gades y Camelot", is a highly charismatic man's sensuous wife who is still madly in love with her lord and has to face the risk of being repudiated due to her barrenness. She desperately seeks for a way of her own that might enable her to survive her crisis. Her turning point comes through a wise man and a Celtic priestess who initiate her into some kind of unusual healing which was reserved to high-ranked ladies in the past.