In Ancient Rome, it was not permitted for bodies to be buried within the city walls.
Like the people of ancient Rome we complain about our conditions and our leaders.
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Ancient Rome, ancient Egypt, the Civil, Vietnam and World Wars for America.
He dreams himself into ancient Rome, where, now called Oedipus, he confronts real despots and real danger.
Not since ancient Rome had a civilization have such an impact on the way the world works.
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To stay in Finland and not take a sauna would be like visiting Ancient Rome and not stopping at the local bathhouse.
The scene is ancient Rome and the situation is dire: The Volscians, a neighboring tribe, seek to conquer the city.
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"This one here, this is a coin from ancient Rome, " said a gray-haired gentleman, drawing out a dime-sized disc from his pocket.
The canton is the only part of Switzerland that speaks Swiss German, Italian and Romansch, a language close to Latin that originated in ancient Rome.
Imperial peace, both in ancient Rome and in other eras, was in a paradoxical way a cause of social and cultural dislocation.
The action has been moved from ancient Rome to a modern republic at war, revealing the play as a contemporary battle drama and political thriller.
The project will be used to carry out further research into ancient Rome's way of life and will be updated according to new archaeological discoveries.
Yes, it's the 42nd Super Bowl Sunday, Super Bowl 42 or XLII as it was in ancient Rome, where professional football began, I'm led to believe.
Ancient Rome was as likely to turn up in a painting of Queen Elizabeth as an American Indian cherub (with ostrich) in an engraving of London.
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U. Throughout history, low fertility and societal and economic decline have been inextricably linked, affecting such once-vibrant civilizations as ancient Rome, 17th-century Venice and, now, contemporary Europe.
America, like ancient Rome, seems to have shuffled off the moral coil of virtue of the Republic and is now enjoying its Imperial self in an orgy of ignominy.
What the creators of the original sculptures of antiquity would have seen every day on the streets of ancient Rome or Athens would undoubtedly have sent our grotesque-o-meters spinning.
"He was inspired by the art he saw or by the buildings he visited, by the remains of ancient Rome and he was transformed by the experience, " he said.
All that is interesting as far as it goes, but ancient Rome and ancient Jerusalem were such different sorts of polity that questions arise about the legitimacy of the comparison.
Carrie Mae Weems does nothing to hide the operatic stage machinery behind "When and Where I Enter-Ancient Rome, " her 2008 black-and-white photograph of a woman in a long gown silhouetted at a picture window.
Legend has it that ancient Rome was spared a devastating invasion by the courage and skill of a great warrior named Horatius, whose singlehanded defense of a bridge kept the enemy hordes at bay.
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The revised seven-acre plaza, which would feature two massive archways, 56 free-standing pillars, fountains and waterfalls, several bronze eagles and a nine-foot wall emblazoned with over 4, 000 gold stars, would still not shame ancient Rome.
As I watch him go, with his red nylon cape flapping out behind him, he looks more John Cleese than Julius Caesar, and it strikes me that many of our associations with ancient Rome are comic.
For the grand finale, hop a five-minute water taxi across the bay to Paradise Island, home to the Atlantis Resort, a massive hotel, casino, restaurant and entertainment complex that looks like a cross between Disney World and Ancient Rome.
Sporting sassy names like The National Nectar, Ancient Rome, The Hen of the Golden Eggs, Firing Line, The Worst Is Nothing and Men Without Fear, most of these dives are patronised by a handful of elderly men who tote their own containers to be filled.
The winner of that particular evening's contest had brought in coins from ancient Greece, Rome and 19th-century America.
Once ashore, the shells of buildings reminded me of ancient Greece, Rome or Petra re-conceived by the creators of Mad Max or Akira.
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As he and first lady Laura Bush walked hand-in-hand touring ancient ruins in Rome, Bush was asked if it was his first time here.
At a conference in Tubingen this week the teams will show off CyberWalk and the CityEngine being used to let people stroll around ancient Pompeii and Rome.
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