“Rome has so grown since its humble beginnings, that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.” - Livy or Titus Livius (59 BC – 17 AD) Wel...

“If you’re not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.” - Michael Strahan   Apicius is a collection of Roman coo...

“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.” - Epictetus   Welcome to the Tra...

“Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral image...

“A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.” - Alan Watts The Charites (Gratiae) were according to Graeco...

“If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink.” Proverbs 25:21 – King James Bible On ...

“Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth.” - Fustel de Coulanges Do you ever feel ...

“Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.” - Jim Wallis When I was quite young, 9 or 10 years old, I read a G...

“Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's rea...

“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.” - Robert A. Heinlein On this day, young people used to rise well befo...

"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in ...

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” - Adam Smith   The ancient Romans believed that on May 9 t...

“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon.” Napoleon Bonaparte   We watched Kevin Macdonald’s 2011 movie “The Ea...

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” - Marcus Tullius The Parentalia , was a Roman religious festival held in h...

“Who loves not forever, is not a lover.” – Euripides The history of St Valentine, the patron saint of lovers, is shrouded in mystery. ...

“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” - Thomas Tusser The birthday flower for today is the Chri...