Silentium

First of all I do not believe a "perfect economy" could ever exist, at least not on this planet..but anyway I partially agree with J.M. Keynes and no, I'm not a commie so don

lmao, im hoping i never meet someone over the net who types like that. wow i and i was wondering if i had a lot of free time (no offense guys ) oh oh i got one what if someone typed lika this anda added an a at the enda almost every thinga they a typed (i know a guy who did that (crazy! ) another bad one is if they typed how Gollum talks (you can barely understand that guy anyway ( my bad didn't mean to dis Gollum) Err..ok, my English might not be the best but I'm not THAT decadent yet

I will let other people make comments on what Christianity brought to the Roman Empire..but I can tell you that here we say "Quod non fecerunt barbari Barberini fecerunt"..with reference to the dear Pope Maffeo Barberini =) I'll let the saying speak for itself

No offence but I find this parallelism inappropriate, considering "my ancestors" never killed in the name of a racial superiority (I won't mention the extention of roman citizenship and all that stuff) and considering there are only A FEW centuries between a dict. perpetvo like Caesar and the other one you mentioned =). I thought humanity had made some progress in the next 1900 years, like abolition of slavery and such. As far as fascism goes, they dusted off roman elements as mere propaganda, but it was actually Mussolini bringing up these things and not viceversa (Romans having similarities to fascism and all that). Oh, and you probably know what Mussolini did in order to build Via dei Fori Imperiali (the street that goes from Piazza Venezia to the Colosseum crossing the forum romanum and forum traiani). That was another act of pure selfishness and delirium..in my opinion obviously.

I dusted off this thread because roman philosophy is something I really enjoy. Two philosophers that I feel like suggesting are Lucrezio and Seneca. From Lucrezio I have read and loved "De rerum natura", I like his way of rationalising every single shade of life and even life itself. As far as Seneca goes (I think you probably read his works, I was forced to do so in latin literature but I did it with much pleasure) you should check De providentia,De ira,De brevitate vitae and expecially De tranquillitate animi. These are probably more influenced by ethics but despite that Seneca never falls into triviality and artificial and rethorical thoughts, unlike some other philosophers of this type. I have to admit that I took inspiration especially from Lucrezio, I find his works brilliant.

lol thanks, the fact is I'm always insecure with both written and oral English, probably more with the second one since I have a heavy latin accent and put the stress on the wrong sillables =S but I'm trying to solve this problem Thanks for the welcome!I'm glad to hear you like Bernini, some people tend to dislike the "parte barocca" of the city but I like it as much as the classic one. I think without his works Roma wouldn't feel like Roma To remain on topic if I was a billionaire I would not move but I'd buy the whole isola of "Mont Saint Michel" in Normandia and make it my summer estate (now I think that would cost me several billions )

Seneca Augustus Caesar =)

I'm not going to comment this post since "de gustibus non est disputandum" hehe but I'll just say that being a citizen of the EU I can say I am really enjoying its benefits. If you came to Italy you'd hear people complaining about inflation and blaming euro for that, whereas the cause lies somewhere else..but it's not easy to make people understand complex economic measures and operations. Anyway as I was saying the EU as a student gave me a lot more opportunities (that I won't bother writing atm) and in my opinion it should be seen more as an attempt of integration rather than a burocratic obstacle to national parliaments.

Agreed!!One of my favourites at the moment, together with Adagio for strings by Barber (in the platoon soundtrack as far as I remember) Oh, and Paolo actually the italian translation of that sentence in your sign. is: Sarei morto se non lo avessi detto, la mia coscienza non mi avrebbe dato pace. o_- (as if my first, second and zero conditional in English were better lol! Anyway, let's not go into that... I hope my reputation won't go to -1 for this XD) Little advice, if you want to start learning latin do it from the tenses and the cases, and only once you have assimilated the structures start with vocabulary

"He drinks, she drinks the slave and the female servent drink, the lady of the house drinks, the lord of the house drinks: at a late hour nobody is drinking." Most likely not completly correct but I get the jist. aaarghh..the carmina burana!!XD I have some bad memories about Carmina Burana from primary school

I just thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Silentium, I'm from Roma. I'm a foreign languages student and I needed some info that I didn't know how to translate into English when I found this website and I have to say it's very accurate, so I said..why not registering on the forum?

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If I had to move from Roma I'd probably go to Florence..outside Italy well, I wouldn't mind living in London for some reason but I'm perfectly fine here. By the way congratulations for the website, it's really well organised and informative. (I almost forgot, sorry for my English but my mother language is italian =/)