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Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
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“Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from the… — Augustus Copy Share Image
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
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“Far, far out on the open sea a platform of stone held firm against the tossing waves. At first sight, it appeared… — Jennifer McKeithen Copy Share Image
“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
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“Maximus said, "They have no tombstones. Not one man in Treverorum wept for their passing." he looked at his audience in turn… — Wallace Breem Copy Share Image
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“The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change. From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
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“In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“I may add as a fourth reason, which diminishes the authority of prodigies, that there is no testimony for any, even those… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“we were all itching for dick jokes and male bonding. The team took photos for the web site on an abandoned construction… — Gaimon Phil Copy Share Image
“The camp offices stood in the centre, adjoining the shrine to Jupiter that held the legion’s Eagle. In the camps of the… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“Addiction originally meant a different kind of strong connection: in ancient Rome, being addicted meant you had just been sentenced to slavery.” — Adam Alter Copy Share Image
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“Given of the god, Given to the god, Taken by the god in valour, honour and glory. May you journey safely to… — M.C. Scott Copy Share Image
“I found out later than even an education and a cushioned introduction to power cannot make a great leader.” — Fredrik Nath Copy Share Image
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“the emperor had chewed off his balls and stuffed a one-way ticket to the Black Sea up his rectum [Marcus Corvinus explains… — David Wishart Copy Share Image
“Livia has gotten bad press. Rumor has a way even now of attaching to women who break the conventional mold, and it… — Phyllis T. Smith Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, Americans have exhibited a taste for expansion, an appetite for empire. One of the fundamental reasons for this… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
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It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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I read mostly historical fiction - lots of stuff set in ancient Rome and ancient Greece. I also liked sci-fi and fantasy:… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
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“The gilded wreaths and crowns that the Legion had won in the days of its honour were gone from the crimson-bound staff;… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
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