Beautiful place - 2000 years ago life was pretty good.
Even had his own satellite dish, just off the atrium.
;^)
Beautiful place - 2000 years ago life was pretty good.
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If it weren’t for the fall of Rome the Industrial Revolution may have happened well over a thousand years earlier.
“Beautiful place - 2000 years ago life was pretty good.”
indeed. IF you owned a bank and dozens of slaves. This house belongs to one of the elite super-rich of the city, equivalent to one of the houses that Al Gore or the Clintons own.
Sure, for the top 10% at most, though this home looks nice enough to be a one-percenter.
Supporting them would be platoons of slaves & hired hands.
Our home-owner was a banker not of noble birth, but prosperous:
Of course, what most people don't know is that this ancient Roman banker was the direct ancestor of a notorious British banco player, whose name can't be revealed, but is sometimes known by the numbers 0 0 7:
;-)