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? Ancient Impossible s1e2: Moving Mountains
2,000 years ago it was Mission Impossible for the mighty Roman Army. They had to conquer this impregnable mountain fortress, surrounded by sheer cliffs, standing hundreds of feet above the Judean desert. ibid.
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.
If the Romans couldn’t starve the rebels out, they would take Masada by force. ibid.
Siege ramps have been part of warfare for thousands of years. ibid.
How do you get a thousand-ton obelisk on to a barge? … [A. Make it an axle] ibid.
Roman engineers kept the water moving through hills and valleys maintaining a steady gradient of less than one per cent. An astounding feat. ibid.
A 2000-year-old concrete dome found in the centre of Rome – it’s called the Pantheon. Ancient Impossible s1e3: Monster Monuments
The Romans had fully armoured knights over 1,000 years before the age of chivalry. Ancient Impossible s1e4: Warrior Tech
The ancient world clearly had more than one great scientific thinker. These ancient geniuses came up with many amazing theories and inventions. Many believe their intellectual capacity may have matched that of great moden thinkers such as Albert Einstein. Colossal monuments, powerful ancient superweapons, and technology so precise it defies reinvention. Ancient Impossible s1e5: Ancient Einsteins
What incredible power-tool might the ancient Egyptians have used to create this mysterious cylinder known as Core 7? What precision instruments did they have to create some of the greatest treasures of the ancient world? Who created the world’s first multi-tool? And an ancient Chinese machine that would start the world’s first industrial revolution. Ancient Impossible s1e6: Power Tools
The world’s first multitool was in fact invented by the Romans 1,800 years ago. ibid.
How could ancient civilisations have built huge structures in less time than it takes to construct the biggest buildings of today? Could Ancient Egyptians have produced thousands of chariots with assembly-line precision? Why would the Romans have created a massive underground industrial hell, where thousands of slaves never saw daylight? Ancient Impossible s1e8: Biggest Builds
One of the Romans’ most incredible inventions was concrete. ibid.
Caesarea: The harbour was an engineering marvel – over a million cubic feet of contrete embedded in the sea. ibid.
Barbegal, France: A water-powered factory. ibid.
The hellish mechanised world that kept the Roman Empire in silver. An unbelievable system of slave-powered water-wheels deep inside the earth. ibid.
Roman arenas: engineering triumphs, built to house gladiators fighting to their deaths. The Romans also created a mobile and deadly armoured weapon likened to the tank. This ancient empire even built a massive wall straight across Britain in unbelievably short time. Ancient Impossible s1e9: Roman Empire
The Colosseum: All around the area are arches that both support the structure and provide access to every seat. This design is so effective it has yet to be improved upon. ibid.
The end of the empire was this frontier – Hadrian’s Wall – 73 miles long … in just five years. ibid.
Rome created snipers, repeating weapons and artillery barages to build an empire. ibid.
The Ballista wasn’t just powerful, it was accurate. ibid.
The Roman army had fully armoured horses. ibid.