“... savor the military cult, among gladiators, legionaries, praetorians and lictors. But also nymphs, vestals, matrons and all the apparatus of the pagan religion.”
That with the story of the brothers and the city established by a murderer, I wouldn’t want to be there and certainly not celebrating.
A city proudly founded on murder and rape. You can’t get any more anti-Woke than that. Congradulations, Eternal City.
If April 21, 753 B.C., is the actual date of the founding of Rome, they should be celebrating Rome’s 2775th birthday. There was no Year Zero. (A.D. 1 immediately follows 1 B.C.).
What about the orgies? I mean, there have to be orgies, don’t there?