The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.
When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.
It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews.
Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.
The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.
Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.
We were all Romans once, I guess.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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