The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: Ancient Rome

  • Rome’s Capitoline Museums: The Oldest Public Museums in the World

    Rome’s Capitoline Museums: The Oldest Public Museums in the World

    The best place to gain an understanding and true appreciation of the art and history of ancient Rome.

  • Exploring the Ancient Roman Appian Way

    Exploring the Ancient Roman Appian Way

    We walked on the same stones as Julius Caesar and St. Peter.

  • Violence: Have We Evolved at All?

    I’m reading a book that is set in the 1850’s and in it there’s about to be a public execution. People have been camping out since the night before to see it as if they were trying to buy tickets for a Justin Bieber concert or something. (Perish the thought.)  It’s all rather grizzly, and…

  • My 100th Blog Entry

    All distances in the Byzantine Empire were once measured from this original milestone, located in Istanbul (Constantinople back then). I’ve stood beside this very important yet inconsequential looking stone as hundreds of people walked by it, probably not realizing its significance. I was thinking about this stone today as I’ve arrived at an important milestone…