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Hello and thanks for visiting my profile. Please relax and stay awhile. Before I get sidetracked talking about my favorite movies and all I would like to tell you about the profile, if I may? The font I chose to use is very similar to that used on ancient Roman buildings. The themes and background image are from the games Total War: Rome II and Ryse: Son of Rome. The song is called 'Final Days of Rome' by Two Steps From Hell. The colors I used are red, gold and black which happen to be my favorite colors and just seem to go well with an Ancient Roman theme. My name is Tommy, I'm 40 years of age and I'm currently living in Brooklyn, NY.. I have brown hair & blue eyes and love just about every sport there is but football will always be my favorite. I Have been on Vampire Rave for some time now with a whole slew of different accounts. I leave for a bit when life throws a curve ball in my direction and then come back when things get more stable in my life. I'm Italian American and I think that is why I was always fascinated with Ancient Rome and it's various conquests. I also totally dig Roman Mythology and it's whole creation myth in general.

The name Fanboy was chosen because of my love for everything having to do with Star Wars.(I'm totally a Star Wars fanboy) A couple of my favorite games include The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Rome: Total War. Two of my favorite movies having to do with Rome are 'Gladiator', which was released in 2000 and 'The Eagle', which was released in 2011. There are so many great movies which involve Rome that it would be impossible for me to list them all. As you can probably guess I was a huge fan of the TV show called 'Rome' which first aired in 2005 and ended in 2007. My favorite music happens to be Heavy Metal but I will listen to just about anything that has awesome guitar riffs. A few of my favorite bands include Metallica, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin. A couple of books about Ancient Rome I would highly recommend are I, Claudius (Claudius #1) by Robert Grave, Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina (Claudius #2) by Robert Graves, The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius and The First Man in Rome (Masters of Rome, #1) by Colleen McCullough. Actually I would recommend the whole Masters of Rome series.

Below, I took the liberty of listing the Ancient Roman Virtues. They were the qualities of life to which every Roman Citizen (and, ideally, everyone else) were expected to achieve. They were the heart of the Via Romana — the Roman Way — and were thought to be those qualities which gave the Roman Republic the moral strength to conquer and civilize the world. Today, they are the rods against which we can measure our own behavior and character, and we can strive to better understand and practice them in our everyday lives. In addition to the Personal Virtues which were aspired to by individuals, Roman culture also strived to uphold Virtues which were shared by all of society in common. Note that some of the virtues to which individuals were expected to aspire are also public virtues to be sought by society as a whole. These virtues were often expressed by minting them on coinage; in this way, their message would be shared by all the Classical world. In many cases, these Virtues were personified as deities.

The Roman Colossevm is the most famous monvment to have svrvived from the classical world. It was bvilt nearly two thovsand years ago for the pvrpose of hosting violent gladiator games. Thovsands of men and animals fought for their lives in the sandy arena. A few gladiators and warriors fovnd glory there. Some even fovnd fame and riches but many more died an anonymovs death, providing entertainment for eager Roman spectators. The powerful associations and images evoked by the Roman Colossevm express both the majesty and might of the Roman empire. It dominates the space it occvpies, towering above the svrrounding Roman streets and bvildings. It is a symbol of the imperial might and architectvral ingenvity of the Roman empire that dominated the ancient Mediterranean world for centvries. The story of the amphitheater and its gladiator games from their origins through the zenith of their development and into the decline and eventval fall provides a vnique insight into the evolvtion and fall of the Roman empire itself. The construction of the Colosseum began in 72 CE in the reign of Vespasian on the site that was once the lake and gardens of Emperor Nero’s Golden House. This was drained and as a precaution against potential earthquake damage concrete foundations six metres deep were put down.

The building was part of a wider construction programme begun by Emperor Vespasian in order to restore Rome to its former glory prior to the turmoil of the recent civil war. As Vespasian claimed on his coins with the inscription Roma resurgens, the new buildings --the Temple of Peace, Sanctuary of Claudius and the Colosseum-- would show the world that ‘resurgent’ Rome was still very much the centre of the ancient world. The Flavian Amphitheatre (or Amphiteatrum Flavium as it was known to the Romans) opened for business in 80 CE in the reign of Titus, Vespasian’s eldest son, with a one hundred day gladiator spectacular and was finally completed in the reign of the other son, Domitian. The finished building was like nothing seen before and situated between the wide valley joining the Esquiline, Palatine and Caelian hills, it dominated the city. The theatre was principally built from locally quarried limestone with internal linking lateral walls of brick, concrete and volcanic stone (tufa). Vaults were built of lighter pumice stone. The sheer size of the theatre was the possible origin of the popular name of Colosseo, however, a more likely origin may have been as a reference to the colossal gilded bronze statue of Nero which was converted to resemble the sun-god and which stood outside the theatre until the 4th century CE. The biggest building of its kind, it is 4 stories with a height of 45 meters and a width of 189 x156 meters. It has an oval arena measuring 87.5 by 54,8 meters. It could hold 50,000 spectators and had a roofed awning of canvas.

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