M. Porcius Cato's Blog

I don't think you can post images in blogs, well I don't have one so I don't really know either. But you can easily upload images into the members gallery.

hi M. Porcius Cato, welcome to the bloggers btw, you set that every comment must need approval to show, i approved this one for you, (unless you did that on purpose, then its fine) cheers viggen

hi M. Porcius Cato, welcome to the bloggers btw, you set that every comment must need approval to show, i approved this one for you, (unless you did that on purpose, then its fine) cheers viggen

 

Can you PM me so I can fix it so everyone can comment?

Ave Cato! More true words not spoken in a long time, in even in terms of structural integrity, democracy is superior!

Are you refering to the Curia? If you are I believe it was built by Caesar (or started by) because the otherone was used as a funeral pyre for my namesake.

I was under the impression the Curia was commenced under the Divine Julius and was finished under the Divine Augustus after the lastone was used as a funeral pyre for my namesake

I enjoyed your graph very much-all life is there!

This Curia was commisioned by the Divine Julius and was finished by Augustus. Laughing on the other side of your face?

This Curia was commisioned by the Divine Julius and was finished by Augustus. Laughing on the other side of your face?

 

Just goes to show that even in chains the senate was greater than that darling of Venus!

Just goes to show that even in chains the senate was greater than that darling of Venus!

 

I love that term - darling of Venus, just something about it. I may have to use it in a song, it's crying out for that treatment.

Thought you might enjoy a photo I took while in Rome this summer. Note the focal point: the Roman Senate building, still standing while the Basilica Julii is in ruins. Yes!

 

Obviously a hairy barbarian thought it was not wort stealing!

Thought you might enjoy a photo I took while in Rome this summer. Note the focal point: the Roman Senate building, still standing while the Basilica Julii is in ruins. Yes!

 

Obviously a hairy barbarian thought it was not wort stealing!

 

Now,I am writing from memory here - but wasn't a Christian church built around the old Curia (which isn't the Augustan one in any case), and that was why it survived? This is even worse than the barbarians ignoring it!

Now,I am writing from memory here - but wasn't a Christian church built around the old Curia (which isn't the Augustan one in any case), and that was why it survived? This is even worse than the barbarians ignoring it!

 

 

Seriously, much of what we have from pagan Roman is due to the Christians' appropriation. Of course, had the Christians not spent so much of the empire's wealth supporting the idle hands and empty skulls of the monks and bishops, there might have been sufficient resources for legionaries and officers to have defended the empire...but that's another story.