Steinberg spoke with warmth and enthusiasm about Italy: `` Rome is my second home.

Like everything else in Rome, ruins and monuments alike, that house is lived in.

Gossip had it ( for gossip is the soul of Rome ) that a famous American dancer of the time had paid for both the planes.

Built upon seven hills, Istanbul, like Rome, is one of the most ancient cities in the world, filled with splendor and contrast.

Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.

You will realize why Rome is indeed the Eternal City.

Here is one of the loveliest fountains in Rome, the Fontana delle Tartarughe or `` Fountain of the Tortoises ''.

The dome of the church is, outside of St. Peter's, one of the largest in Rome.

The scene before you is indeed theatrical and often appears in movies about Rome.

This is one of the most charming little squares in this part of Rome.

Either here, or in one of the modest restaurants nearby, is just the place to end this first walk through the heart of Rome.

The second walk through the heart of Rome should be taken after lunch, so that you will reach the Pincian Hill when the soft light of the late afternoon is at its best.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

* The abbot of Sant ' Anselmo di Aventino, in Rome, is styled the " abbot primate ," and is acknowledged the senior abbot for the Order of St. Benedict ( O. S. B.

This terminology is common in many countries, and originated from the " Lex Sempronia Agraria " or " agrarian laws " of Rome in 133 BC, imposed by Tiberius Gracchus, that seized public land ( ager publicus ) used by the rich and distributed it to the poor.

Inevitably, the surviving evidence is not complete enough to determine whether one should interpret, with older scholars, that he wisely curtailed the activities of the Roman Empire to a careful minimum, or perhaps that he was uninterested in events away from Rome and Italy and his inaction contributed to the pressing troubles that faced not only Marcus Aurelius but also the emperors of the third century.

He is alleged to have founded an institution for virgins in Rome.

The Alabama River's main tributary, the Coosa River, crosses the mineral region of Alabama and is navigable for light-draft boats from Rome, Georgia, to about above Wetumpka ( about below Rome and below Greensport ), and from Wetumpka to its junction with the Tallapoosa.

He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and receives full treatment in Roman mythology as the legendary founder of what would become Ancient Rome, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid.

It is at this point that Paris gives Aeneas Priam's sword, in order to give legitimacy and continuity to the Royal Line of Troy – and lay the foundations of Rome.

There is a surviving portrait of Agrippina the Elder in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.

He flew over Rome one day during the early days of Mussolini and scattered leaflets over the city, denouncing the Fascists.

Lastly, his father shows him all of the future heroes of Rome who will live if Aeneas fulfills his destiny in founding the city.

Finally, Antoninus created a new alimenta ( see Grain supply to the city of Rome ).

While his paternal family was from the town of Velletri, about from Rome, Augustus was born in the city of Rome on 23 September 63 BC.

Ambracia was captured and plundered by M. Fulvius Nobilior in 189 BC, after which it was declared by Rome a " free city ", and gradually fell into insignificance.

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

But even these exceptional instances show that Rome was not entirely spared the horrors which usually accompany the storming of a besieged city.

A. S. Roma was founded in the summer of 1927 when a secretary of the National Fascist Party, Italo Foschi, initiated the merger of three older Italian Football Championship clubs from the city of Rome ; Roman FC, SS Alba-Audace and Fortitudo-Pro Roma SGS.

Archeological site of Tossal de Manises, ancient Iberians | Iberian – Carthaginian – Ancient Rome | Roman city of " Akra-Leuke " or " Lucentum "

Finding Rome locked against him and held by Ageltrude, he had to take the city by force on 21 February 896, freeing the pope.

After the death of Alexander the city ( now known as Akroinοn ( Ακροϊνόν ) or Nikopolis ( Νικόπολις ) in Ancient Greek ), was ruled by the Seleucids and the kings of Pergamon, then Rome and Byzantium.

Ignatius of Antioch also paused at this city before continuing to his martyrdom at Rome.

Benedict does not seem to have left Rome for the purpose of becoming a hermit, but only to find some place away from the life of the great city.

The city fell under Roman rule around 60 BC, its importance lying in the commerce of tin and lead towards Rome.

Keith Hopkins estimates that ancient Rome had a population of about a million people by the end of the 1st century BC, after growing continually during the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st centuries BC, making it the largest city in the world at the time.

While David Kessler and Peter Temin consider ancient Rome to be the largest city before 19th century London and the first to have exceeded a population of over 1 million, George Modelski considers medieval Baghdad, with an estimated population of 1. 2 million at its peak, to be the largest city before 19th century London and the first with a population of over one million.

It took on the name of Konstantinoupolis (" city of Constantine ", Constantinople ) after its re-foundation under Roman emperor Constantine I, who designated it as his new Roman capital, the New Rome.

Constantine divided the expanded city, like Rome, into 14 regions, and ornamented it with public works worthy of an imperial metropolis.

The city, and the Empire, would ultimately fall to the Ottomans by 1453, but its enduring legacy had provided Europe centuries of resurgence following the collapse of Rome.

When the Dictator was away from Rome, the magister equitum usually remained behind to administer the city.

Each cardinal takes on a titular church, either a church in the city of Rome or one of the suburbicarian sees.

Henry attacked Rome, and on the outskirts of the city gained thirteen cardinals who became loyal to his cause.

: And the One Hundred and Fifty most religious Bishops, actuated by the same consideration, gave equal privileges ( ἴσα πρεσβεῖα ) to the most holy throne of New Rome, justly judging that the city which is honoured with the Sovereignty and the Senate and enjoys equal privileges with the old imperial Rome, should in ecclesiastical matters also be magnified as she is, and rank next after her.