22 November 2005

Roma uber alles

roma uber alles

From the final episode of HBO drama Rome, a screencap of Julius Caesar surveying a map of the city. Caesar intends to divert the river to reclaim land for the expansion of Rome. Strangely enough, the city has about the same shape as some other familiar place... No wonder our leaders have such delusions of grandeur, yes?

(Incidentally I find to my horror that Singapore is also a city of seven hills...)

7 comments:

Constantine said...

Seven hills? Which are they? I sorta thought that most of the landforms were used for reclamation already...

akikonomu said...

Seven mostly flattened ex-hills then =D

Bukit Timah, Bukit Merah, Bukit Gombak, Bukit Purmei, Bukit Ho Swee, Mount Faber, Mount Vernon...

rench00 said...

was Rome really shaped like that? gosh! what a coincidence!

i don't think there's anything wrong with having visions of grandeur though. :)

Sprezzatura said...

eh eh you forgot a good number: bukit panjang, bukit sedap, Mt Sinai, Mt Alvernia...

Beach-yi said...

yah yah scholar speaking of graduer, ooo i shake in my pants with anticipation.h

akikonomu said...

But Rome has more than seven hills...

rench00 said...

beach-yi
careful you don't drop anything when shaking!