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Greek is the embodiment of the fluent speech that runs or soars, the speech of a people which could not help giving… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
History is how we have learnt to think about ourselves. It's not as though the Greeks and Romans are static entities out… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
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I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet… — Shea Hembrey Copy Share Image
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“The revolt in Asia Minor was snugged out in 494, and the Athenians realized that they had acquired a dangerous enemy. Darius… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
“The explosion of grotesque immorality we associate with imperial Rome—open prostitution and perversion, the bloody gladiatorial combats, and so forth—is best understood… — Rod Bennett Copy Share Image
“Rome was not the first state of organized gangsterdom, nor was it the last; but it was the only one that managed… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
“You do remember the lessons, however. Rome—corrupt, rich, and disorganized, a republic that ruled the world yet couldn’t rule itself. Its senators… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“It was an article of faith to the Romans that they were the most morally upright people in the world. How else… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
“they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers, ACT16.20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Plato, however, in the “Laws,” classes the Celts among the races who are drunken and combative, and much barbarity is attributed to… — T.W. Rolleston Copy Share Image
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“...discontented inhabitants who willingly admit a foreign power either through excessive ambition or through fear, as was the case with the Etolians,… — Machiavelli Niccolo Copy Share Image
“To the Greeks [the Macedonians] were uncouth, semi-civilized barbarians. The Macedonians for their part despised the Greeks as effete, wishy-washy Greeklings. Both… — Nicholas Sekunda Copy Share Image
If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The Roman arena was technically a level playing field. But on one side were the lions with all the weapons, and on… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
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Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
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