- Late night. I looked out the back window and saw a jacketed man standing on top of our shed. He was not moving. I turned off the lights to avoid being seen but he disappeared. I went outside to investigate and discovered a key inserted into our side garage door, unlocked, and upon entering the garage woke up screaming. Later I dreamed I was a sniper and felt the distinct experience of it being wrong.
- Ancient Rome (Wikipedia)
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD. It encompasses the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), the Roman Republic (509–27 BC), and the Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD) until the fall of the western empire.