As the founded myths have, the city of Rome was founded by a man named Romulus, one of two orphan twin brothers who grew up on her wolf on the banks of the Tiber River. The legend of Romulus and Remus, including the murder of the former, gives more questions than answers, but serves amazing images. “Wolf Latin, lUpaalso means prostitutes. For example, “So were you a prostitute whore actually came to the rescue?” So, ask historian Mary Beard. Rome: Empire without restrictionsA four-part series where you can see the whole thing above.
In a way, the story works either way. The fatal conflict of brothers with brothers repeatedly creates a phoric theme throughout Roman history, but also has uncontrollable commercial power. Crossing the European continent, the UK, the Mediterranean and Africa on cars, boats, bicycles, metro trains and, above all, on foot, Beard uses traces of the most powerful ancient empire to explain how the entire operation actually worked and what its daily experiences were like for the subject. When it first aired in 2016, An unrestricted empire Followed her acclaimed books SPQR: Ancient Roman History, It covers some of the same themes.
Those who have followed Beard’s work on print, television or other media know that her version of Roman history is not another series of emperors or military movements. She spends her time discussing signal figures like Julius Caesar (who certainly didn’t say “et tu, brute?”), Augustus, Hadrian, Constantine, etc., but she suggests that she suggests that she is currently in Spain, for example, an anonymous young woman, an anonymous young woman in the shape of a skull, the extent of migration within the Empire. And as much consideration as a particular Roman citizenship was the concept of Roman citizenship itself, which ultimately spread across the vastest empire the world had ever known.
All the roads connected to Rome, and as the saying sayings hit, and in the heyday of the Roman Empire, as Beard points out, it was indeed true. The ancient Romans first built what she called the “participated world.” There, he followed the Roman path and then went to places like Spain and Greece. (And, unprecedentedly, you take a glance at the miles marker along the path and immediately “put yourself in the world.”). As Beard says, “There are a few Romans in each of us’s heads,” especially our people who think about their empire every day.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
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