Why Roman History?
"Those that fail to study history are doomed to repeat it"
"History appears the first time as a tragedy...
the second time as a Farce"
Any of this sound familiar?
"Unless, however, I am misled by affection for my undertaking, there has never existed any commonwealth greater in power, with a purer morality, or more fertile in good examples; or any state in which avarice and luxury have been so late in making their inroads, or poverty and frugality so highly and continuously honoured, showing so clearly that the less wealth men possessed the less they coveted. In these latter years wealth has brought avarice in its train, and the unlimited command of pleasure has created in men a passion for ruining themselves and everything else through self-indulgence and licentiousness."
Livy: History of Rome
