Why we’re stuck in Ancient Rome

The Neverending Empire : The Infinite Impact of Ancient Rome by Aldo Cazzullo is published by Italian journalist.

The book a catalogue of events, more accurately makes good on one promise of its blurb.

It offers plenty of proof that the ancient Romans have inspired poets and artists’, that “they have dictated the rules of war, architecture, language and law” But the why and how are absent.

Coppola ’s film transcribed the story of Catiline a Roman politician who tried to seize the reins of the republic from the conservative grandee Cicero onto a futuristic New York .

The film tried to warn via its conceit: modern America is as vulnerable to the throes of demagoguery as much as the Republic was.