quotes

• Virgil- "The founding of Rome is divinely ordained, and its founders are descended from the gods"
• Livy- "Romulus killed Remus but accounts of how differ"
• Cicero- "Rome is perfectly located for several reasons, Romulus was so smart"
• Augustus- "I built or restored lots of stuff"
• Tacitus- "The fire was really bad, and Nero blamed the Christians"
• Dio Cassius- "Nero did it!!!"
• Martial- "noisy subura"
• Juvenal- "anywhere's better than the subura because things are always falling down or catching fire"
• Tacitus- "poor people are particularly impacted by disasters like flooding"
• Martial- "I can hold hands with my neighbour through the window!"
• Juvenal- "Only rich people can get any sleep because the city is noisy. Rich people get carried everywhere in litters and can have a nice nap but I have to walk and get trodden on and hit with stuff"
• Pliny the Elder- "the Pantheon had bronze capitals and expensive decorations by foreign artists"
• Ovid-"the circus maximus is a great place to pick up women"