Rome VictoriousRome Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines was the epicentre of a far flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks of the River Tiber, came to rule vast tracts of territory across the face of the known world is one of the more improbable stories of antiquity. The epic scale of the Colosseum; majestically columned