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WHEN IN ROME DO AS THE ROMANS DO |
When in Rome do as the Romans do is the best way of gettings things done when touring in Rome.
This old adage was conceived by the Spanish writer Cervantes 400 years ago when he visted the ancient Rome.
Why could you not be like Cervantes?
Visit the ancient Rome because the panoramic view you can have of the ancient city from the Capitol Hill are incomparable.
it's enough to turn ourselves for a moment to see how the roman ruins preserve everywhere the strength and the harmony of the vanished monuments. Today these buildings of ancient Rome inspire us a nobler and satisfying idea of the civilization whose richness they display, of the society whose discipline they evoke, of the men whose intellectual stature and artistic mastery they bear witness.
Thanks to the recent excavations begun at the beginning of the XX century,we are able to reconstruct the majesty and the aspect of the monuments in ancient Rome.
It's never enough for us to focus our study of the Roman's life on a fixed point in time. It would lack foundation and consistency (if we did not also focus in space) in the country or in the town. Even today, when the facilities for communication, the diffusion of newspapers, the possession of radios bring something of the pleasure,there was a vast discrepancy between the monotony of a peasant's existence and the excitement of city life in ancient Rome.
The townman, in fact, enjoyed all the goods and resources of the earth; the peasant knew nothing but unending labour without profit, and lacked for ever the joys which warmed the heart of even the most wretched in the cities: the liveliness of the "palestra", the warmth of the bath, the gaiety of public banquets and the magnificence of public spectacles like the gladiators at the Colosseum.
But what we mean when we say " Ancient Rome" ?
Like all the greek and latin cities of antiquity, ancient Rome, from the dawn of her legend to the end of her history, had always consisted of two inseparable elements:
- a sharply defined urban space called " Urbs "
- the rural territory attached to it, called " ager romanus ".
The "Ager Romanus" extended to the boudaries of the adjacent cities, which had preserved their municipal individuality in spite of political annexation, like Lavinium, Ostia, Fregenae, Veii, Tivoli.
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