【 collation 】 As it approached the 5th century BC, Rome was emerging from its legendary past into the real world of recorded history. It was now a thriving province of the Etruscan world ruled by...
【 collation 】 The story about Romulus killing his twin brother, at the moment of the founding of the city is a very old story. It is very very remarkable that in the late Republic, the Romans were...
【 collation 】 Livy set out to write a brief history of early Rome, celebrating its glories and virtues, propaganda for the reforms of Augustus. What he had to go on were stories handed down over t...
【 collation 】 Rome took everything from the Etruscans. Etruscan engineers showed them how to drain the marshes where Rome now stands and channel the water into underground sewers. Etruscan archite...
But above all, the Etruscans were famous for their open displays of affection between men and women. It shocked the ancient world. The Greeks who knew the Etruscans from very early on before Rome was,...
When the Mediterranean sailors of ancient Greece and Egypt looked west toward Italy, they stared into a great unknown. It was 800 years before the birth of Christ and Rome still didn't exist but stori...
And this vast, well-organized empire would muster the largest army the world had ever seen: over half a million soldiers. Rome was the superpower of the ancient world. Later superpowers never stopped...
Rome's savagery was matched by its size. When the Colosseum was built, Rome was a city of a million people and growing. Not until London of the 19th century would a city approach this size again. What...
Over 1,000 years after Rome's fall, the armies of the French emperor Napoleon descend on the city. Napoleon's forces have already battled their way through Europe, take Rome seems an afterthought. By...
10 美国西部的崛起 DATE=3-15-2001 TITLE=THE MAKING OF A NATION #132 - (1)SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST BYLINE=FRANK BEARDSLEY VOICE ONE: (start at 0'12") The making of a nation -- a program in special...
