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You're very welcome! Stay tuned - we are going to go all the way to the Fascist period with this series!

@@AncientRomeLive I love that. I love their style of architecture--far better than their contemporary Bauhaus style

I agree. It remains a fascinating topic, lost in the mists of legend and myth. I would like to believe that "Numa", "Ancus Marcius" , and the rest of the monarchs of the regal period existed and walked the soil of Rome. Unfortunately, any written records from that remote time were probably destroyed ca. 390 BCE when the Gauls sacked what was then Rome. Generations of Roman kids grew up believing these ancient stories . More importantly, the stories served as tutorials for what it meant to be a Roman citizen, with its responsibilities and code of "proper Roman behavior".

@@johkkarkalis8860 Makes me realize how much of history, and of course 'the best parts' of history, will NEVER be known... :( It's sad, but there's nothing for it. At least until we make a time-machine. Not only during these early periods of 'civilization,' but also the many tens of thousands of years before. So many groups existed, moved, quarreled, explored, adventured, lived lives that were important, impactful, worthy - how many were wise, cunning, patient rulers...? These are the great stories of history we'll never know, that greatly outnumber the comparative few tales written by conquerors.

@@Bob-2023 It is indeed frustrating, Bob, that we may never know the "stories" you refer to. Lacking that time machine you mention, we depend on the findings and interpretations of archaeologists, with the same biases that all of us are subject to. Well yes, there was much grandeur to ancient Rome. Hollywood tells us so. What the films overlook is the reality of the city of ancient Rome. One writer referred to ancient Rome by the five "F"s: Flood. Fire. Famine. Fever. Filth. This was what the "everyday" citizen of Rome faced, unless he was wealthy enough to live in a comfortable villa outside the squalor of the great city, with its tenement like structures, chamber pots for a toilet and the all pervasive stench of every day living. Happily these things aren't on view when we visit the remains of the Forum or the Pantheon. As you suggested, these people who we will never know had their own lives, their own hopes and fears, their personal concerns for family. Let me know if you ever build that time machine and I will pack us some good lunches. Just don't plop us down too close to a Roman tenement.

Thanks for sharing! Yes we just scratched the surface on this topic.

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Thank you! Not much to see today - shopping mall nearby!

On that note, check out the Archaeo display: in the shopping mall on the site

@@AncientRomeLive Thanks Darius 😉

Interesting! Do I detect a direct line from Tarquin "the proud" to the Duke of York? Boys will be boys. Rome remains and endlessly fascinating read.

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