Rome has shaped the world and impressed us today. How much we make, however, rarely aware of. This gap Karl-Wilhelm Weeber first-class manner.
Much of our language and our thinking, we owe to the Romans, and our architecture, our roads, our sense of justice, our hygiene ideas have their roots in ancient Rome.
especially clear in the "bread and circuses" is. The former gladiator fights in the audience shouted out reactions similar to today's football games, just as it was in the truck race also awaits today's Formula 1 audience in spectacular accidents, human curiosity has remained the same.
Even our calendar is introduced by the Romans been, as well as underfloor heating and the window glass.
Similarly, those described in Bellum Gallicum properties such as efficiency, speed and rationality is still desirable, although not primarily from warlords, then at least among managers.
Karl-Wilhelm Weeber writes lively and informative, entertaining and competent, brings one to wonder and to make this book a pure pleasure to read.
contributes to the extremely elegant and tasteful decor of this issue.
Karl-Wilhelm Weeber: Rome is thanks! Why we are all Caesar's heir. ISBN 9783821862057, hardcover, 350 pages, published on 01.12.2010 at her Eichborn
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