“The Senate and Roman People” or “The Senate ... used “SPQR” to invoke comparisons between the glories of ancient Rome and his own regime, as part of a vision for what he called the ...

The letters SPQR stand for Senatus populusque Romanus (”The Senate and ... all men, so Rome too receives men from every land.” Clelia Martínez Maza is professor of ancient history at the ...

After the Roman mob burned the Senate, the senators fled the city and ... of our place and time is not really comparable to that of ancient Rome nor of the Israel of Jesus’ time.

which sits upon its ancient foundations, is filled with symbols of Christianity's triumph -- the gilded bronze columns that once adorned a pagan temple, the original doors from Rome's Senate House ...

The Senate continued to sit and wellborn people continued to ... ‘civilization,’ but it was really part of their enslavement.” His ancient Roman moral assumptions can be hard to distinguish from a ...

"The Book Of Humor For Ancient Rome." Professor Blue explains ... in 44 B.C. when Emperor Julius Caesar arrived in the Roman Senate and told a few jokes to warm up a crowd of senators who ...