Rome: From Empire to Idea

The Night Rome Refused to Die Rome was supposed to fall quietly. By the fifth century,

the empire was exhausted—its borders cracked, its armies thin, its people tired of believing in

old glory. In the year 410, the Visigoths marched into Rome itself. No foreign army

had breached the city in nearly 800 years. To most of the world, this was the end.

But history doesn’t end when cities burn. As fires lit the Roman sky,

senators hid in marble halls that once ruled half the planet. Temples were looted.

Statues toppled. The myth of Rome’s invincibility shattered in a single night. News spread fast:

Rome has fallen. Kings celebrated. Enemies smiled. Philosophers mourned. Yet something strange