The articles of the series Urbem Fecisti are dedicated to the way Rome has shaped the modern world, to its modernity. It's a fact that Roman Empire is still living inside each of us in the western world and not only.
It was just few days ago that, sitting on the sofa and jumping from a TV channel to another, I saw two different movies with ancient Roman characters and set in Britain, King Arthur (2004) and The Eagle (2011). Both are a production from USA.It is also interesting to observe that the best historians that have written about the ancient Rome are British, or American, starting from Edward Gibbon, whose The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published in 1776, curiously the same year of the USA Declaration of Independence.
So my question was why British and Americans are so much interested in the history of ancient Rome?
And my answer, my personal opinion, is that everything has to do with the concept of imperial power. Imperial power is something that goes beyond the political and military domination, is the cultural influence on the peoples that are part of the empire and not only on them.
