Ancient Rome Aficionados Gifts

Brutus stabbing Caesar an accident

Spectators at a coliseum

Roma. I don't have ten wives --- I said "ex-wives," not "X wives"!

Sadie, I keep hearing all this talk about how the president might be literally insane. It's making me feel anxious. Sometimes I wonder if this is how the British felt when King George III went crazy and lost America. Or is it more like how the Romans felt when Caligula made his horse a senator? That reminds me: Did you get to ride Caligula's horse, or were you too old for that? Before I answer that, let me show you what the Romans did to losers in the old days ...

"I'd have been just as happy with monoply."

Bacchus.

Repurposing the aqueducts of Ancient Rome.

Sundial Time

Euripides: 'If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.'

'Why can't we just kick Caesar upstairs?'

"I'm really gonna miss Rome."

'Barbarians at the gate? That's fine, I fully support social mobility.'

Euro Problems

The Original Gossip Columns

All Roads Lead To Rome

'Looks like they were sun worshippers.'

Islington Angels.

"It's five post meridiem in Central Europe. Compliled form the major networks the news is next."

Socrates, 399 B.C: 'Wow, I could have had a V-8.'

Janus 2021

Romulus and Remus ( and their brother Derek )

Why Rome Fell:'Peel you a grape? Don't you know that the skin is where all the vitamins are?'

"Look - I've just invented the spade!..."

Virgil

"At least the TV people are saying Alvin Bragg had to pass a rubix cube to indict me. That had to hurt."

Robert Denarii: 'You talin' to me.'

'I have really gotten into this Roman History course.'

Caesar slips on ice. Bystander says 'He was warned-beware the ice of March'

Roman Emperor using a glad-hand in an amphitheater

Intellectual property. Luckless Roman inventor who forgets to patent his creations is fed to the lions with the words 'Time to try out my lion repellent invention'

Audiences at the coliseum were down after health and safety had paid a visit.

I came, I saw, I had a little brunch, I conquered.

Stan's OK Deliveries

Ancient paperwork.

A crying man wears a laurel wreath