有声英文阅读-巨蛋始祖：罗马竞技场

Do as the Romans Did? 巨蛋始祖：罗马竞技场 Inaugurated1 in A.D. 80 by the emperor Titus, the Roman Colosseum is the earliest prototype of the modern superdome. With a perimeter of 527 meters

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【 collation 】 Rome now piled victory upon victory all across Italy as one by one her neighbours fell to the legions. Rome's rise was gathering momentum, and by now seemed unstoppable. But she suff

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【collation】 The next night, when he knew Lucretia's husband was away, King Tarquin's son crept back to her house alone. With a knife at her throat, he raped her, and swore that if she breathed a w

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【 collation 】 The census didn’t create equality or democracy. Rome remained a society governed by kings and nobles. Women had few rights. But it created a level of organization unheard of in the

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【 collation 】 The story about Romulus killing his twin brother, at the moment of the founding of the city is a very old story. It is very very remarkable that in the late Republic, the Romans were

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【 collation 】 Livy set out to write a brief history of early Rome, celebrating its glories and virtues, propaganda for the reforms of Augustus. What he had to go on were stories handed down over t

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【 collation 】 Rome took everything from the Etruscans. Etruscan engineers showed them how to drain the marshes where Rome now stands and channel the water into underground sewers. Etruscan archite

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But above all, the Etruscans were famous for their open displays of affection between men and women. It shocked the ancient world. The Greeks who knew the Etruscans from very early on before Rome was,

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When the Mediterranean sailors of ancient Greece and Egypt looked west toward Italy, they stared into a great unknown. It was 800 years before the birth of Christ and Rome still didn't exist but stori

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And this vast, well-organized empire would muster the largest army the world had ever seen: over half a million soldiers. Rome was the superpower of the ancient world. Later superpowers never stopped

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Rome's savagery was matched by its size. When the Colosseum was built, Rome was a city of a million people and growing. Not until London of the 19th century would a city approach this size again. What

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Over 1,000 years after Rome's fall, the armies of the French emperor Napoleon descend on the city. Napoleon's forces have already battled their way through Europe, take Rome seems an afterthought. By

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【 collation 】 As it approached the 5th century BC, Rome was emerging from its legendary past into the real world of recorded history. It was now a thriving province of the Etruscan world ruled by

双语有声阅读:Do as the Romans Did? 巨蛋始祖：罗马竞

Do as the Romans Did? 巨蛋始祖：罗马竞技场 Inaugurated1 in A.D. 80 by the emperor Titus, the Roman Colosseum is the earliest prototype of the modern superdome. With a perimeter of 527 meters, 80 entrances, and the capacity to hold between 5

2000多年前的罗马拖鞋跟小贝球鞋一模一样

Roman sandal found at Hadrian's Wall looks just like David Beckham's football boot 2000多年前的罗马拖鞋跟小贝球鞋一模一样 Archaeologists were left stunned when they uncovered a near 2,000-year-old shoe which looks just like the Adida

世界小史 第152期:罗马公民

A Roman citizen living abroad always retained his separate status, for he lived according to Roman law. 但是一个罗马公民始终跟一个当地人有很大的区别。他按罗马法行事， Wherever he happened to be in that vast empire, he c

大卫·麦考莱:《罗马异事》

为了完成《罗马异事》这篇付诸画卷的名城赞美诗，大卫麦考莱（David Macaulay)经过了怎样一段曲折甚至诡妙的历程呢？请听他本人娓娓道来

CCTV9英语新闻：罗马庆祝第一个皇帝

Emperor Augustus again towers over the temple he once built. Two millennia since his death, a special sound and light show in the Forum of Augustus is celebrating his legacy. Orginally named Gaius Octavianus, Augustus ruled for 41 years before his de

美国学生人类历史 第85期:罗马和迦太基(13)

They wanted action. Something must be done and must be done quickly. A popular hero by the name of Varro, the sort of man who went about the city telling everybody how much better he could do things than slow old Fabius, the Delayer, was made command

美国学生人类历史 第87期:罗马和迦太基(15)

Her navy had been sunk. She had been forbidden to make war without Roman permission. 迦太基的全部军舰被沉入海底，从此失去了海军；不经罗马人的许可它没有发动战争的权力； She had been condemned to pay the Romans