Swords Against The Senate: The Rise Of The Roman Army And The Fall Of The Republic
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
As the healthcare bill returns to the US Senate, it is worth asking what the upper house represents. The answer, writes Steven Hill, is not America: this patrician gerontocracy more closely resembles the ancient Roman Senate
The Daily Fuel (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Author and think-tank director Steven Hill examines the madness that is the United States Senate, which he describes as "a patrician gerontocracy more closely resembling the ancient Roman Senate than a New England town meeting."
Ansa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... 2000-year old altar for traces of pigment, the Ara Pacis was brightly colored when unveiled by the Roman senate in 14 BC.Rome's culture chief Umberto Broccoli said the study has furnished light technicians with the exact colors embellishing the monument, which they have been able to replicate with hundreds of tiny light projectors.Broccoli said the color system, financed with the...
The elephant in the drawing room (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The Roman Emperor, Caligula, had a horse called Incitatus whom he kept in ostentatious luxury. The horse slept in a stable of marble, ate oats mixed with gold flakes and had a manger made of ivory. To complete his pampering, he had a collar of precious stones and was. apparently, waited on by a team of eighteen servants. At one point during his reign, Caligula proposed to make Incitatus a Consul,...
Movies Loader (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which [...]
Political Intelligence (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
As the 100th member of the Senate, it is my great honor to pay tribute to this body’s longest serving member, Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, on the occasion of his record-setting 20,774th day as a member of Congress. I have the fondest memories as a young staffer here listening to the sounds of Senator Byrd’s fiddle wafting from his suite on the first floor of the Russell Senate...
Ape Man (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... you a small example of what I am talking about. Read this quote from the Wikipedia article on the Roman Domitian….. Domitian’s reign came to an end on 18 September 96 when he was assassinated by court officials. The same day he was succeeded by his friend and advisor Nerva, who founded the long-lasting Nerva-Antonine dynasty. After his death, Domitian’s memory was condemned to oblivion by...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
ButlerMore Articles:Most Viewed:(17421 views)(9313 views)(5559 views)(3244 views)(1102 views)(1013 views)Gerard Butler has boarded Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut "Coriolanus." Butler will play Tullus Aufidius opposite Fiennes, who will play the title role of the proud but contemptuous soldier spurred on by his ambitious mother to run for the Roman Senate, which ultimately leads to his...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Legg Mason chief Mark Fetting seemed thrilled Monday when he announced that billionaire investor Nelson Peltz would take a seat on the big money manager's board."We welcome Nelson, whose firm is a significant investor in Legg Mason," Fetting said in prepared propaganda. "We look forward to benefiting from his insights and experiences as we work together."The Roman Senate must have sounded...
