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My Library is for my historical and academic pursuits. I have become famous for my salons held with the important thinkers, writers and poets of Rome. I particularly enjoy listening to the poetry of Catullus who is reciting for me now.

"Let us live and love without a thought for the gossip of virgins grown old.
Suns go down and can return, but, once put out our own brief light, we sleep through one eternal night.
Give me a thousand, a hundred kisses, another thousand, a second hundred, a thousand complete, a hundred repeat; and when we've many thousand more, let us scramble them, forget the score so Malice can not know how high the count, and cast it's evil eye."

Bravo Catullus! That is one of my favorites.

Hadrian Capitoline Museum Rome March 2004

(This wonderful bust of the Emperor Hadrian was taken on my trip to Rome in March 2004.)

Ah, Pomponia with sweetmeats and more wine. Pomponia? Is that make-up on your face? Well go wash it off. You look like a pantomime at the festival of Floralia.

Do you think I should sell her? I wonder.

Shall we go on? Not many people get to see the next room, but I like you so follow me. A Lady In Waiting

(THE BACKGROUND FOR THIS ROOM IS FROM THE VILLA OF JULIA, DAUGHTER OF AUGUSTUS. IT WAS FOUND ON THE BANKS OF THE TIBER IN THE TRANS-TIBERIM DISTRICT OF ROME. IT IS NOW ON DISPLAY (THE ENTIRE ROOM IN FACT) AT THE PALAZZO MASSIMO IN ROME.)

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The Making Of "Cleopatra" 1963: A New Begining In Rome (page 3), Jan 26, 2008 - 05:38

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Part III of the history of the making of the epic film \"Cleopatra\" Staring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison. (1963 Twentith-Century Fox)

The Making of "Cleopatra" 1963 A Near Death Experiance (Page 2), Oct 13, 2005 - 22:31

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The first attempt to film \"Cleopatra\" in rain soaked London.

The Making of "Cleopatra" 1963 (Page 1), Oct 12, 2005 - 21:52

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Elizabeth Taylor enters the public consciousness as a real life Cleopatra. Meanwhile Walter Wanger goes fishing and 20th Century Fox takes the bait. ...

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