THE “FALL” OF ROME: A SKEPTICAL VIEW - PART I: ANATOMY OF A FALL
An overview of the oft-cited "Fall of Rome" What fell? What was "Rome" at that time? Are we next? Dive into this 3-part series to understand the complexities of 'the fall' and what it means for us today. Oh, and I got a 1-month license for AI-generated images. Woo-hoo!
ROME’S BAD BOY: CLODIUS PULCHER - PART II
What a storm and tempest he has been to the Republic!
— Cicero, on Clodius Pulcher
ROME’S BAD BOY: CLODIUS PULCHER - Part I
Cicero … did not shrink from publicly accusing the enemy Clodius of incest with brothers and sisters.
— Martin Jenhe
WHAT DID THE ROMANS CALL 44 BC?
Which death is preferable to every other? The unexpected.
— Julius Caesar
HAPPY NEW YEAR, PLEBS!
The common folk come, and scattered here and there over the green grass they drink, every lad reclining beside his lass … they grow warm with sun and wine, and they pray for as many years as they take cups, and they count the cups they drink.
— Ovid
SHOULD YOU EAT BABIES DURING SATURNALIA?
It is the month of December, and yet the city is at this very moment in a sweat. Licence is given to the general merrymaking. Everything resounds with mighty preparations, – as if the Saturnalia differed at all from the usual business day! So true it is that the difference is nil, that I regard as correct the remark of the man who said: “Once December was a month; now it is a year.”
— Seneca
THE FIVE GOOD EMPERORS
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
— Edward Gibbon