In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare highlights two great cultures of efficient reasonable society of Rome and self –indulgent society of Egypt. The two great civilizations were bi-polar and they repelled each other like same sides of two magnates . Tiber, 1the river of Rome connects Europe with t...
By this advance he subjected modern Switzerland, Austria, much of Hungary, and the Balkans to Roman rule and protected the connections between the western and eastern provinces of the Empire; no other Roman leader made such additions. ... (Exouedate.com) In the sixth century AD, the Eastern Roman Emperor, Justinian (Iustinianus), ordered the compilation of several law codes. ...
Whoever it was used techniques refined over hundreds of years, and learnt from different cultures such as the Greeks, Egyptians, and Eastern Europe. ... We can thank the foundation as one of the reasons the Colosseum has stood so long with minimal wear, other than the disassembling of it in the Middle Ages. ... In the middle of the Arena, under the actual playing floor was the practice, storage, holding and working rooms. ...
Gladiatorial contests hold a central place in our perception of Roman behavior. They were also a big influence on how Romans themselves ordered their lives. Attending the games was one of the practices that went with being a Roman. The Etruscans who introduced this type of contest in the sixth century BC, are credited with its development but it is the Romans who made it famous.(Adapted from Tacitus) A surviving feature of the Roman games was when a gladiator fell he was hauled out of the arena by a slave dressed as the Etruscan death-demon Charun....
