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“Nearly everyone in this film is obsessed with the Rome that was, where the emperor was a scholar instead of a syphilitic club kid in a toga,” writes Meg Elison in her review of Ridley Scott’s new film. “It is much easier to complain about a bad government than to build one that works. See Virgil for more on this. See Hannah Arendt. See Marija Gimbutas. See all of human history. See the news.”
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has recognized the Appian Way as a World Heritage site. The Appian Way, sometimes called Europe’s first expressway, was a major strategic and commercial route for the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire, and houses many sites sacred to Roman deities along its path.
Archeologists have uncovered the marble head of a figure believed to be Apollo in Phillipi, a find that shows how Roman statuary continued to be used and appreciated in the Christian Byzantine era.
We review the Pagan and not-so-Pagan history of the Valentine’s Day holiday, right down to the goat-skin loin clothes.
New archeological research shows that Rome’s conversion to Christianity was a more gradual process.