In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.
If Rome, was a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.
Rome wasn’t deconstructed in a day.
Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, c...
Rome was not built in a day.
Among Romans, crucifixion originated as a deterrence against revolt of slaves, probably as early as 200 B.C.E. By Jesus's time, it was the primary form of punishment for "inciting rebellion" (i.e., tr...
The grandeur that was Rome.
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