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“After all, these edifices were built around the time that Jesus Christ was born in Judaea, a province of the Roman Empire. And it was that empire which, although at first hostile to those new beliefs, finally accepted them, becoming a Christian empire, with all the emperors from Constantine, save the brilliant Julian, being fiercely Christian. Ironically, Christianity, born in the Empire, grew and spread within it and beyond, ultimately outliving it.”
― The Little Book of Roman Emperors
― The Little Book of Roman Emperors
“They passed this way before us and have become immortal, not just because they were indeed deified by their contemporaries but because we see ourselves in them.”
― The Little Book of Roman Emperors
― The Little Book of Roman Emperors
“Few institutions in history have presented us with such tales of raw power in all its flawed glory: murder, assassination, torture, debauchery, sexual deviance, naked ambition, cunning, vanity and, all too rarely, wisdom and statesmanship. Shakespeare summed it up, ‘Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown’.”
― The Little Book of Roman Emperors
― The Little Book of Roman Emperors
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