Quotes About Rome

He was accompanied by Agrippa and another early friend, Quintus Salvidienus Rufus

In 13 B.C., the state's two leading men returned to Rome, the princeps from Gaul, Agrippa from the eastern provinces

But now the idea that Rome had an imperial destiny was one of the ways by which the regime justified itself in the public mind.

the Roman state was remarkably nonbureaucratic; with no police force

He immediately set out from Rome, but Agrippa was dead when he arrived.

Rome became a republic in 509 B.C., after driving out its king and abolishing the monarchy. The next two centuries saw a long struggle for power between a group of noble families, patricians, and ordinary citizens, plebeians, who were excluded from public office. The outcome was a apparent victory for the people, but the old aristocracy, supplemented by rich pledeian nobles, still controlled the state. What looked in many ways like democracy was, in fact, an oligarcy modified by elections.

They also had to consider what to do with the defeated Republican opposition in Rome. There was one solution that would solve both problems: a proscription. A good deal of time on the island was spent haggling over names. More than 130 Senators (perhaps as many as 300) and an estimated 2,000 equites were marked down for execution and property confiscation.

No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by his pride in Rome, he nevertheless glorified Rome's true mission as one of providing the world with the rules of peace and justice.

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

Playing Mark Antony in 'Rome' will always be a favourite of mine because he was such an outrageously big and interesting character to play. Also, the fact that we were able, with that character, to find out and present the public with a biography of that man that had not been really seen before.

Valencia is a pure Mediterranean city; it is a city like Naples or Palermo, like Rome a little bit. Walking in the old town has a little bit of the flavor of the old city of Rome.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

I simply fell in love [with Rome] - like you fall in love with a person

upon entering the school of medicine in Rome. He was the only student whose father had once been a slave, a fact that had less impact in Rome, where he had still had unlimited

Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

I am a striker or at least a playmaker behind the front man, certainly not a wide man. But with Rome and Milan, I was only playing on the wings.

the 'decline and fall of the Roman empire' began with the death of Marcus

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (the Great), better known in English as Pompey

This radical new policy provoked the first serious disagreement between the churches of Constantinople and Rome

some supporting Macedonia, others, including Athens, supporting Rome.

year later the former king would be paraded through the streets of Rome among captives

in broad daylight in the centre of Rome.

The Romans had expelled their last king in 509 BCE.

Part of the process of getting out, of uprooting, is to shed origins. In Rome, as elsewhere in my family, the past was less a source of fascination than a thing to be overcome.