Taking personal responsibility. It is a concept the plebs in the modern progressive world fear more than anything else. Yes, they may panic and become hysterical after watching the latest fear-mongering news report (if one may call it as such) from the mainstream media. But taking personal responsibility is what Read more…
Cloelia – The Bravest Of Ancient Roman Women After making peace with Rome and evacuating Roman territory, the Etruscans under Lars Porsena set up a camp on the banks of the river Tiber. With him he had a number of Roman hostages taken as a guarantee of the peace. One Read more…
Lars Porsena And The Legend Of Gaius Mucius Scaevola In 509 BC the Roman monarchy was overthrown, and in 508 BCE the young republic found itself at war with the Etruscan city of Clusium. Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the deposed Roman king, had sought help from Lars Porsena, arguing that people Read more…
The Most Valuable Possession Of The Ancient Romans Perhaps one of the most virtuous stories of ancient Roman history and mythology is that of Marcus Curtius. According to Roman legend, in 362 BCE a deep chasm opened in the Roman Forum. The Roman people attempted to fill the chasm to Read more…
How To Become A Virtuous Man As the world is facing a global lockdown and people are fighting like mindless zombies over toilet paper, one wisely wonders; what went wrong? How did we go from the Ancient Romans and may I say, the Spartans, to the mindlessness that defines modern Read more…
Civic Virtue And The Legend Of Horatius Cocles According to the Roman legend, Horatius Cocles was an officer who taunted and single-handedly fought off the Etruscans led by Lars Porsena, while rest of the army demolished the Pons Sublicus (the only bridge crossing the Tiber). He then threw himself into Read more…
The Rise Of Rome “Can any one be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means, and under what kind of polity, almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and brought under the dominion of the single city of Rome, and that too within a Read more…