Roma Eterna: Plus Ca Change . . .

Art by Thomas Couture, 1847; Advertisement by Dolce & Gabbana, 2006

"Juvenal is ridden by nostalgia; he is an ideologist for rural simplicity and antique toughness. . . . what, he asks rhetorically, what would the sturdy farmers, the brave soldiers who died at Cannae have said to Imperial corruption, the influx of Orientals, perfumed perverts, insolent modish women?"
- Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism