O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen the pompous face of this Rome saved by your efforts and...

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of...

Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator’s minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]

Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And...

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

Look,” Percy continued, “I know I’m new here. I know you guys don’t like to mention the massacre in the nineteen eighties-“”He mentioned it!” one of the ghosts whimpered.

In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated.Imagine twentieth-century Italy coming to terms with the fall of the Roman empire or Egypt with the...

It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay and disruption of the Roman Empire, the consequent disorganisation of society,...

New Rome will be destroyedBy the attacks of new vandals.God always remains silent.

And although cars and motorcycles zipped around, all he saw was the girl coming toward him like a scene in a movie.

there are men who are ancient and determined enemies of the Church of Rome who live in perpetual hope of its destruction

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.””It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay...

Sir, you do understand that – officially – I’m not actually a centurion. I haven’t even been assigned to a legion yet.’The general continued writing as he spoke. ‘What was the name?”Corbulo, sir.”Corbulo, you have...

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on that. But thinking about this almost incredible episode does tell one something about...