Roman Culture Gifts

The Original Gossip Columns

"You mind signing this? My kid's is a big fan."

"Look sharp, Son. Your Mother's family just showed up."

'Orgies...orgies...my life's just one long orgie !'

'Take no notice, he was raided by wolves.'

'Ooh, that's new!' (antipasto bar in the Collusseum).

"Hmm...well...It'll look better when it's finished...!"

Bacchus.

'I guess it's not much consolation but I thought your impersonation of the King was a riot.'

Neptune

"A world without Ovid? I can't even begin to imagine a world without Ovid."

"Uh Oh! Jehovah's"

'Bloody streakers - they have a lot to learn.'

Goddess

I'm Spartacus.

"Bob, the whole Cupid thing is a metaphor."

'Honey, I'm Rome!'

"Just a routine ID check, Mr. Spartacus - there are lots of people with the same name, you know."

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

"What was the Roman attitude to construction?"

Janus 2021

Archimedes statue tipped up by a lever.

Pizza at the Round Table

Referees at the Original Olympics.

"Surely, as the world's only superpower, we're entitled to a little mischief now and then."

"They must be planning to do a real number on us. It looks like they've brought along an accountant."

Roman playing croquet under aqueducts.

"Reviving the old all type, eh?"

Julius Caesar

"Nothing like a good stretch before looting and burning."

"Remember, Jeremy, thou art immortal."

Robert Denarii: 'You talin' to me.'

Ion Luca Caragiale.

Veni, Vidi, Vici, Mani, Pedi.

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