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{{quote|'''Reg(leader of the People's Front of Judea):''' ''All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? ''<br />
'''PFJ member:''' ''Brought peace?''<br />
'''Reg:''' ''Oh, peace - SHUT UP!''|'''[[Monty PythonsPython's Life of Brian]]'''}}
 
{{quote|''To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace."|'''Tacitus''', Roman historian}}
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** Antoninus Pius (138 - 161): Famous for doing nothing at all besides ruling competently for 22 years. (About the only memorable thing he ever did was to browbeat the Senate into declaring his adoptive father Hadrian a god, hence his title of "Pius" - piety, to a Roman, meant obedience to ones parents as much as to the gods.)
** Marcus Aurelius (161 - 180): Tried to live to the ideal of the philosopher king. He was a decent man and competent ruler, though his reign was marked by wars and [[The Plague]], which killed him too.
** Commodus (177 - 192): Started the empire's long decline by being a spendthrift and a tactless ruler. Not a nice fellow, though not quite as bad as depicted in ''[[Gladiator (Filmfilm)|Gladiator]]''. Assassinated by a wrestler.
 
* Year of the Five Emperors
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* Alexios I Komnenos (1081 - 1118): Appealed to the Pope and the western European kingdoms for assistance against the Turks, leading to [[The Crusades]]. Halted the Empire's sharp decline after the disastrous Battle of Manzikert, at least for a while.
* Manuel I Komnenos (1143 - 1180): Pursued an aggressive foreign policy and expanded the Empire, but his conquests didn't last long.
* Constantine XI Palaiologos (1449 - 1453): The last emperor in the east, he led Constantinople in a heroic [[Last Stand]] against the Turks. [[Never Found the Body|His body was never found]], elevating him to [[King in Thethe Mountain|legendary status]].
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== Film ==
* Ridley Scott's ''[[Gladiator (Filmfilm)|Gladiator]]''
* ''[[Monty PythonsPython's Life of Brian]]''
* The second segment of ''[[History of the World, Part I]]'', the [[Mel Brooks]] movie.
* ''[[Ben -Hur]]'' (based on a novel by Lew Wallace)
* ''[[The Robe (Film)|The Robe]]'' (based on a novel by Lloyd C. Douglas)
* ''[[Demetrius and The Gladiators]]'', sequel to ''[[The Robe (Film)|The Robe]]''
* ''The Sign of the Cross'', based on a play by Wilson Barrett
* Fellini's ''Satyricon'', loosely based on a work by the Ancient Roman author Petronius.
* ''[[Quo Vadis]]?'' (''See'' [[Literature]], ''below''.)
* ''[[Centurion (Film)|Centurion]]'', set among the Ninth Legion in Scotland, right when Hadrian pulled back.
 
== Literature ==
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* ''The Silver Chalice'' (1952) by Thomas B. Costain. Made into an infamously bad movie in 1954.
* ''[[Detectives in Togas]]'' (1953) by Henry Winterfeld, set in the reign of Emperor Tiberius.
* ''[[The Eagle of the Ninth (Literature)|The Eagle of the Ninth]]'' (1954) by [[Rosemary Sutcliff]]. Set in the Empire times in Britain.
* ''[[Ecce Romani]]'', the Latin textbook. First published in 1971.
* ''[[Cambridge Latin Course]]'', the UK's counterpart to ''Ecce Romani''.
* The ''[[Marcus Didius Falco]]'' series of detective novels. Started in 1989.
* ''[[The Roman Mysteries (Literature)|The Roman Mysteries]]'' by Caroline Lawrence. Started in 2001.
 
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[I Claudius (TV)|I, Claudius]]'', based on the novel by Robert Graves.
* ''[[The Roman Mysteries (TV series)|The Roman Mysteries]]'': The TV adaptation of the book series.
* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episodes "The Romans", "The Fires of Pompeii" and "The Pandorica Opens".
 
== Theater ==
* A few plays by [[William Shakespeare (Creator)|William Shakespeare]]:
** ''[[Cymbeline (Theatre)|Cymbeline]]'': Set in Britain, but during the reign of [[Emperor Augustus]].
** ''[[Titus Andronicus (Theatretheatre)|Titus Andronicus]]'': Set in a fictional Late Roman era.
* ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Theatre)|A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]''
 
== Video Games ==
* ''Rome: [[Total War (Video Game)|Total War]]''
* ''[[Spartan Total Warrior]]''
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Roman Holidays (Animation)|The Roman Holidays]]'' by [[Hanna-Barbera]]
 
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