Roman Core Scholarship

“In some cases, the fading of memory, break the slender thread that ties the past to the present.”

Valenzany (2006)

• on difficulty of interpreting buildings

““Roman politics was all about networking: quiet words of support, favours asked and granted, snippets of information, gossip and rumour were the common currency.”“

Woolf (2006)

• on Roman politics and social interaction

“The Romans were a people who inhabited a single state and one great city within it. Romans often referred to Rome simply as the City…”

Woolf (2006)

• on the importance of Rome as the centre of the Empire

“The Aeneid and Augustan art and architecture are inextricably interwoven; the artist and his age cannot be separated or read apart from one another.”

Zanker, J. (1985)

“By this criterion, the greatest Romans were the imperialists, generals, and triumphators. The display of statues in the sanctuary of Mars suggested a coherent overall view of Roman history.”

Zanker, P. (1988)

• about Summi Viri