Based on old Roman texts, the author depicts some Roman habits and myths - building around two main themes sexuality and fear.
- Epicur is the 3rd century's Freud:
a. a person that doesn't enjoy life, creates his own illness.
b. any person, in his own intimacy, has a restless heart, that drives the soul crazy with silly thoughts.
- we were born animals, thus regardless of the number of laws, the humanity cannot escape it's animal roots.
- Septimius: "the one who writes - sodomizes, while the reader is sodomized"
- 470 a.d - Sollius Sidonius Apollinaris: "There are no longer hierarchies between the noble people, hierarchies that allowed us in the past to know the ranks; thus from now on the only hint about how noble one person is, will be found in the amount of knowledge".
Suetoniu, talking about emperor August's death: talking to his friends the emperor asked if they think he played a good role in the comedy of life, and than he added 'if i played well, give a round of applause for the play'
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