The old clichéd saying that ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’ is true, but so was its ‘decline and fall’ equally slow. Going from its traditionally accepted date of foundation the Roman Empire in the West of 753 BC, it lasted 1229 years in the West until the abdication of Romulus Augustulus in 476 AD.
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Unwritten codes of behaviour, maintaining standards, behaving ‘properly’ are as old as the hills, at least as old as the Seven Hills of Rome.
The mos maiorum, loosely translated as ‘ancestral custom’ was the unwritten code of ancient Rome. It included time-honoured principles, behavioural models and social practices that affected every aspect of life in […]
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Author photo, Venus and Mars, House of Mars And Venus, Pompeii, Naples Museum
Well, yes to sex – they are Romans – but not so much marriage, more informal family arrangements.
Marriage in the majority of cultures has meant one man and one woman, with the woman leaving her father’s family and joining […]
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