The scene is ancient Rome and the situation is dire: The Volscians, a neighboring tribe, seek to conquer the city.
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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.
"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.
The contrast between this innovative motorsport series and the rich ancient history of Rome is one I am sure the public and the media will be intrigued and enriched by.
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Like the people of ancient Rome we complain about our conditions and our leaders.
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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.
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Hanks said shooting the movie in the ancient city was complicated given the vibrancy of Rome.
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.
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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This was the moment when the buildings and artifacts of ancient Greece and Rome were being rediscovered as a source of artistic inspiration, initiating what we know as the Renaissance, which also changed everything forever.
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Excerpt: The wonder of ancient history was not that one civilization, that of Rome and the classical Mediterranean, failed, but that so many others succeeded, many of them brilliantly.
"Safeguarding Rome's ancient legacy does not mean that the contemporary city is unable to produce artistic beauty, " says Rome's mayor, Walter Veltroni.
To stay in Finland and not take a sauna would be like visiting Ancient Rome and not stopping at the local bathhouse.
Monteriggioni owes its importance, and its walls and towers, to the dominant position that it held over the via Francigena, the ancient and vital trading road between Florence and Rome.
From the Colosseum, cutting across the ancient racecourse Circus Maximus, it is a wonderful stroll up the Aventino, one of Rome's seven hills, home to a dreamily upmarket residential district with deep-green trees shading its orange-ochre buildings.
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.
Pope Francis is also the first Jesuit Pope - from an ancient and fiercely independent Catholic order that has not always enjoyed the best relationship with Rome.
Surely the great cultural antinomy of ancient times was not between Rome and Jerusalem, but between Hellenism and Judaism?
Ancient Greece and Rome are remembered for the rulers who conquered the known world, but also for the Odyssey and the Iliad, for a forum and a coliseum.
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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.
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 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.
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.
Not since ancient Rome had a civilization have such an impact on the way the world works.
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Centuries later, they were chased from their headquarters in Malta by Napoleon and now have their headquarters in an ancient palace in the smartest and most fashionable shopping area of central Rome.
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.
In Ancient Rome, it was not permitted for bodies to be buried within the city walls.
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.
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