My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman…

Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively.…

— George Emil Palade

Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place names and ruins and forts. My…

— Neil Marshall

Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty,…

— Mary Beard

“Roman history also demands a particular sort of imagination. In some ways, to explore ancient Rome from the twenty-first century is rather like walking…

— Mary Beard

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses…

— Richard Engel

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among…

— Joseph Addison

We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself…

— Joseph Addison

Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and…

— Daphne Guinness

The Ancient Romans did not regard acts of genius to emanate from within an individual - but rather saw it as a collaboration between…

— Liz Garbus

It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that…

— Frank Black

The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of vital import;…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

— Charles Spurgeon

“They were ancient history. They were so ancient they made ancient history look modern. Well, okay . . . maybe medieval.”

— Roberta Pearce