He's here in Rome. Everywhere that is seemingly not named after an Emperor, Caecilius or Decius Marcus Aurelius is named after him. The Italians do like the old British political gossip.
This was found in the Museo Nazionale Romano - Palazzo Massimo
Found just going off the Old Apium Way - Quo Vadis Guido?
Everywhere In Rome there are political posters for the upcoming Presidential election. There is a lot from, Nova Mussolini, Berlusconi.
Will you be there to 'Save our Country' at the Colosseum tomorrow
I will be there for Italy. Although I do not want socialists in Italy I also think we have had enough in the news of Mr Berlusconi's Bunga Bunga parties.
You may have noticed I have done a lot of blog posts today.
Why may you ask? Well I'm off to Rome to go see the sights and become all
Roman. I love the Romans and so will look forward to it. Unfortunately for you,
although there is a computer in the place I am staying, I will not be posting
that often if at all.
I shall be seeing all the sights from the Coliseum to a 5th century
underground ossuary, built when the monks of Rome decided to collect 10,000
skulls of their deceased brothers and dressed some in clothes. Interesting
stuff.
My favourite Roman Emperor is Hadrian. He stopped imperial expansion
leaving a huge but stable empire so that he was able to preside over growth in
the Roman economy. He also made sure the rest of the second century had firm political governance by
appointing two very strong heirs. The blemishes to his name were massacring
thousands of Jews in Jerusalem after they rebelled against him, at this time
the Jews were very rebellious.
If I see some riots because the Italian economy is down with
that of Greece I'll try do a story on it. If not I may go back 2000 years and
do some Roman Politics.
So that's it for a while. Please vote in the poll on the
side and keep reading when I return. Vale!
