Rome

Rome

Rome (Latin and Italian: Roma [?ro?ma] (listen)) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale). Rome also serves as the capital of the Lazio region. With 2,868,782 residents in 1,285 km2 (496.1 sq mi), it is also the country's most populated comune. It is the fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. It is the centre of the Metropolitan City of Rome, which has a population of 4.3 million residents. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber. The Vatican City (the smallest country in the world) is an independent country inside the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this reason Rome has been often defined as capital of two states. Rome's history spans 28 centuries. While Roman mythology dates the founding of Rome at around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited for much longer, making it one of the oldest continuously occupied sites in Europe. The city's early population originated from a mix of Latins, Etruscans, and Sabines. Eventually, the city successively became the capital of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and is regarded as the birthplace of Western civilization and by some as the first ever metropolis. It was first called The Eternal City (Latin: Urbs Aeterna; Italian: La Città Eterna) by the Roman poet Tibullus in the 1st century BC, and the expression was also taken up by Ovid, Virgil, and Livy. Rome is also called the "Caput Mundi" (Capital of the World). After the fall of the Western Empire, which marked the beginning of the Middle Ages, Rome slowly fell under the political control of the Papacy, which had settled in the city since the 1st century AD, until in the 8th century it became the capital of the Papal States, which lasted until 1870. Beginning with the Renaissance, almost all the popes since Nicholas V (1447–1455) pursued over four hundred years a coherent architectural and urban programme aimed at making the city the artistic and cultural centre of the world. In this way, Rome became first one of the major centres of the Italian Renaissance, and then the birthplace of both the Baroque style and Neoclassicism. Famous artists, painters, sculptors and architects made Rome the centre of their activity, creating masterpieces throughout the city. In 1871, Rome became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, which, in 1946, became the Italian Republic. Rome has the status of a global city. In 2016, Rome ranked as the 14th-most-visited city in the world, 3rd most visited in the European Union, and the most popular tourist attraction in Italy. Its historic centre is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Monuments and museums such as the Vatican Museums and the Colosseum are among the world's most visited tourist destinations with both locations receiving millions of tourists a year, and the city hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics. Rome is the seat of several specialized agencies of the United Nations, such as the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). The city also hosts the Secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) as well as the headquarters of many international business companies such as Eni, Enel, TIM, Leonardo S.p.A., and national and international banks such as Unicredit and BNL. Its business district, called EUR, is the base of many companies involved in the oil industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and financial services. Rome is also an important fashion and design centre thanks to renowned international brands centered in the city. Rome's Cinecittà Studios have been the set of many Academy Award–winning movies.

Year:
2005
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Mark Antony:
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

Atia of the Julii:
Wake up! Wake up at once! What is the meaning of this!

Gaius Octavian:
What?

Atia of the Julii:
The money! You've given the plebs their money!

Gaius Octavian:
Is it so late already! I overslept

Atia of the Julii:
I don't care! What about the money?

Gaius Octavian:
I've promised it. I'm sorry I didn't tell you before now, I knew you'd object. I've decided to enter public life, and it seem as a best way to introduce myself to the people

Mark Antony:
That would be seen, as a direct challenge to ME!

Gaius Octavian:
Yes, but that is not my intention at all. I suggest we make a public display of unity, to call such notions

Mark Antony:
A public display of unity? But you...

Gaius Octavian:
It makes sense. Our interests are conjoined, while you're a consul, my name, will lend weight to yours, and when your consulship is over and you retire from politics as you have promised, I will step in as leader of the Cesarion party

Mark Antony:
I see.

Gaius Octavian:
You will need protection from your enemies in the senate and I can provide that.

Mark Antony:
[he angrily charges and grabs Octavian by the ears] WHO THE F*** DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

Gaius Octavian:
[fighting back] I'm Caesar's rightful heir!

Atia of the Julii:
[holds Antony back] Would you stay calm! He doesn't have the money, so he can't give it away can he? This is all just childish talk.

Gaius Octavian:
The money is legally mine! I was able to borrow against it!

Atia of the Julii:
Borrow? How much did you borrow?

Gaius Octavian:
It's not so much in the great scheme of things.

Mark Antony:
[getting angrier] How much?

Gaius Octavian:
Three million Sestertii! [Atia gasps hysterically]

Mark Antony:
Oh, Juno's... C*NT!

Mark Antony:
Poor sad wretch gives everything you ask for. The Senate will ratify your status. You get your triumph, stand for consul, and Pompey will retire to Spain. He'd suck Posca's cock if you asked him to.

Gaius Julius Caesar:
Too generous by far. I never thought Pompey would accept such terms.

Mark Antony:
You think it's a strategem?

Gaius Julius Caesar:
I doubt it. He and what few forces he has are trapped and grow weaker by the day. We might crush him at will. But now that he has offered truce, I would look like the worst sort of tyrant if I attack him. Posca here thinks I should accept. Make peace.

Mark Antony:
In exchange for what?

Posca:
Peace is its own reward.

Mark Antony:
Snivelry! The ram has touched the wall! No mercy!

Posca:
Pompey has no great army, but he has the Senate with him. He has legitimacy.

Mark Antony:
In Rome they are the Senate. Beyond these walls they're just three hundred old men.

Gaius Julius Caesar:
As you say Anthony. But others will agree with Posca. They have made this shameful surrender public. It will be read throughout Italy. If I am not a tyrant. If I merely seek legitimacy then why would I not accept such favorable terms?

Posca:
[Perusing Pompey's surrender] He refuses to meet us in person?

Gaius Julius Caesar:
[thinking] Very good. Simple. Hoi polloi can understand a reason like that. He refuses to meet me face to face, man to man. [in mock anger] He refuses to meet me!

Mark Antony:
[laughing] Right. That's it. No truce. Let's be after him. [begins to leave]

Gaius Julius Caesar:
Patience. He's well caught. We'll leave when the time is right.

Mark Antony:
When?

Gaius Julius Caesar:
When the time is right.

Mark Antony:
But we should have left Rome long ago. The apple is ripe for plucking and we sit here doing nothing?

Gaius Julius Caesar:
Pompey's not an apple. And I am not a farmer.


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