Ancient Rome was a violent place.
James Purefoy
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Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.
Graham Joyce
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The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
StruggleManLawRomeFirstRights
I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
Cecilia Bartoli
MusicSchoolRomeConservatory
If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.
Theodor Mommsen
GreatDoingYearRomeCircumstances
I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.
Isabella Rossellini
FashionThoughtDesignRomeFirst
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
Caroline Lawrence
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
Waris Ahluwalia
StartStoneHouseRomeFirstLittle
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
Paolo Sorrentino
StepRomeAwayOne ThingPathetic
My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.
Hannibal Buress
MeNobodyRomeHimKnowsGeneral
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia
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