Caligula v The Senate: Caligula grows more and more irritated with the Senators. ibid.
Some of Rome’s most powerful aristocrats begin to plot ways to remove him from power. ibid.
A true tyrant ruling through fear and intimidation. ibid.
Caligula is making arrangements to move the Imperial court to Egypt. ibid.
Claudius, Caligula’s elderly uncle, becomes the next emperor of Rome. ibid.
The conspirators felt that the name of Brutus would add legitimacy. Professor Rudy Storch
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. Augustus
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
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. Arthur Erickson
In Rome, the emperor sat in a special part of the Colosseum called the Cesarean Section. George Carlin
The wealth of the nation was quickly concentrated into the hands of the richest Romans once again. Bill Still, The Secret of Oz 2009
So in Rome we learn that with cheap, government-issued money the Roman Republic flourished, but under the gold money it perished. ibid.
Have we learned nothing from the past? Julius Caesar 2002 starring Richard Harris & Christopher Walken & Valeria Golino & Chris Noth & & Pamela Bowen & Sean Pertwee & Jeremy Sisto & Tobias Moretti & Samuela Sardo & Daniela Piazza et al, director Uli Edel, 2002 mini-series, Walken
I’m going to cross the Rubicon. Will anyone be coming with me? To Rome! ibid. Julius Caesar
If our plot is discovered before we even begin then we turn our knives on ourselves without hesitation. ibid. Caesar
After Caesar’s death, the Roman empire was shaken by 15 years of civil war. None of Caesar’s murderers survived him by more than three years. Not one of them died a natural death. ibid. caption
The Roman Empire with its Colosseum, its gladiators and its ancient cities frozen in time. No other power dominated the planet for so long. But what are the secrets that helped Rome rule? Dan Snow, Rome’s Lost Empire, Yesterday 2014
At its root Rome was a brutal military superpower. ibid.
The Colosseum, one of the greatest wonders of the world, and home to Ancient Rome’s most famous fighters, the gladiators. The Colosseum: The Arena of Death with Dan Snow I, Channel 5 2024
It’s huge. The Colosseum was completed in 80 A.D. and it’s a stunning feat of Roman engineering … nearly half a mile around. ibid.
65,000 Romans packed into this space. ibid.
Even before the Colosseum was built, gladiator fights were hosted in Rome. ibid.
Lots of the grandest buildings used concrete. ibid.
The mega-projects of the ancient world were built on the backs of enslaved people. ibid.
What would I experience at the Greatest Show on Earth? ibid.
This giant architectural wonder was built in just ten years. The Colosseum: The Arena of Death with Dan Snow II
The Colosseum would launch an advertising campaign. ibid.
Your seat at the game was all dependant on your social rank.
Lift shafts linking the hypergeum to the world up above. ibid.
Rome triumphs over the known world ... Rome prevails. Caesar the Conqueror 1962 starring Cameron Mitchell & Rick Battaglia & Dominique Wilms & Ivo Pajer & Raffaella Carra & Carlo Tamberlani & Bruno Tocci & Lucia Randi & Cesare Fantoni & Giulio Donnini & Piero Palermini & Aldo Pini & Fedele Gentile et al, director Tanio Boccia, opening commentary
I ask that Gaius Julius Caesar be called back to Rome to render an account of his policies and actions. ibid. Senator
The destiny of the soldier is death. ibid. Caesar
It’s a story of violence, intrigue and power. The Murder of Julius Caesar, Channel 5 2015
Caesar’s triumphs were like nothing Rome had ever seen. Caesar may have won over the people, but he would find it harder to gain the trust of Rome’s political elite. ibid.
They drove their blades home with blow after blow. ibid.
Rome two thousand years ago was the world’s first ancient mega-city ... More than a million people lived in Rome. Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Building the Ancient City II: Roma
How did they make this great city work? ibid.
The Romans built upwards. This is an ancient apartment block ... home to up to two hundred people. ibid.
The fall of Rome, like her rise, has not one cause but many. And was not an event but a process spread over three hundred years. The Fall of the Roman Empire 1962 starring Sophia Loren & Stephen Boyd & Alec Guinness & James Mason & Christopher Plummer & Mel Ferrer & Oman Sharif & Anthony Quayle & John Ireland & Andrew Keir & Eric Porter et al, director Anthony Mann, opening commentary
How did the Romans manage to defy gravity and make millions of litres of water flow uphill over mountains? How did the ancient Egyptians carve massive granite obelisks thousands of years before the Washington monument was built? And why would the Roman army build their own mountain? Monuments more colossal than our own … The ancient world was far from primitive. Ancient Impossible s1e1: Moving Mountains, H2 2016
The Romans completed the wall around Masada in just a few days. But what they didn’t realise was how well stocked the rebels were. ibid.
Roman engineers kept the water moving through hills and valleys maintaining a steady gradient of less than one per cent. An astounding feat … uphill: the inverted syphon. ibid.
A 2000-year-old concrete dome found in the centre of Rome – it’s called the Pantheon. Ancient Impossible s1e2: Monster Monuments
Roman arenas, engineering triumphs, built to house gladiators fighting to their deaths. Ancient Impossible s1e8: Roman Empire
The Romans also created a mobile and deadly armoured weapon likened to the tank. ibid.
The Alps: Northern Italy 218 B.C. The decline of the Roman empire begins at 15,000 feet on some of the world’s most unforgiving terrain. 50,000 barbarian warriors from across the ancient world have united against a single enemy. Barbarians Rising I: Resistance, History 2016
Rome forced Carthage to sign a crippling peace treaty in an attempt to break its enemy. ibid.
Hannibal waits nearly two decades for a chance of revenge. ibid.
Rome believes the mountains are an impenetrable fortress. ibid.
The result is slaughter on an unprecedented scale ... 70,000 men. ibid.
The Barbarians of western Hispania are under siege as Rome invades their homeland, seeking revenge for their part in Hannibal’s war. Barbarians Rising II: Battlefront
The Republic now occupies more than 100,000 square miles of Barbarian territory in Hispania. Roman roads begin to cut across the landscape ... and carries death squads to put down any resistance. ibid.
Viriathus, a shepherd, decides to make a stand. ibid.
The larger Rome grows the more enemies it brings on the inside. A vast Barbarian army waiting for a leader to rise. Barbarians Rising III: Rebellion
Spartacus and a group of sixty Barbarian slaves seize the opportunity to escape. ibid.
The greatest threat to Roman supremacy in a century. ibid.
The Republic is now locked in a non-stop battle for supremacy on multiple fronts ... a handful of men fight for control. Barbarians Rising IV: Bloodline
Augustus succeeds where Caesar fails and perfects the art of empire building ... Augustus doubles the size of the empire during his reign. ibid.
Arminius is uniting the Germanic tribes under one leader for the first time. ibid.
Arminius: the Empire loses nearly all of its 20,000 men. Barbarians Rising V: Birthright
For the first time in nearly 300 years the Barbarians are shifting the balance of power against Rome. ibid.
Arminius is murdered in 21 A.D. by allies who feared he had grown too powerful. ibid.
When Rome invades [Britannia] again in 43 A.D. it makes a foothold in the south-east. Emperor Claudius sends 40,000 troops to take the island. ibid.
Boudica sets out to amass an army. ibid.
‘The eradication of the Druids was absolutely catostropic for the people of Britain … a true apocalypse for them.’ Barbarians Rising VI: Revenge, Steve Kershaw
‘We’ve had tens of thousands of dead and three cities in flames.’ ibid.