Modern Songs About Rome and Other Ancient Cultures?? - Historum

Germania_Echoes · October 3rd, 2010, 03:17 PM

Hi, everyone. I’m trying to pick up some songs to keep in the background while I work on my short stories. Seems to help! Any good, fairly modern songs concerning ancient Rome and especially the Roman army? I'm searching YouTube with little luck.

I’d like some ‘inspiring’ songs either about the army in its heyday or a ‘sad’ type of song about the empire falling. Any movie, game, etc. songs / soundtracks about ancient Germany, Rome, or the Celtic world? These are all areas for which I would like to find ‘theme songs.’ Also ancient Judea, perhaps a song played in a television series or movie about Rome and the siege of Jerusalem, etc. I realize I’m grasping at straws but I’d really like to jump-start my creativity!

Germania_Echoes

**bunyip** · October 3rd, 2010, 03:24 PM

This is the only one which comes to mind,although I'm sure there are any more.There are several versions on Youtube; this one has Frank Sinatra.

The fountain in the song is the Fontna di Trevi, in Rome.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ld4c9FGDJ4"]YouTube - "Three Coins In The Fountain"-FRANK SINATRA[/ame]

**okamido** · October 3rd, 2010, 04:44 PM

Try this one:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABlZ9bRsqbE&feature=related"]YouTube - Rome[/ame]

Pauke! Pauke! · October 3rd, 2010, 07:34 PM

Incan....sort of
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hchTdQVAig8"]YouTube - WAYNA PICCHU - El Condor Pasa-Quechua Original(voz:Santos Salinas)made in Munich Germany[/ame]
Perhaps this?
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-hZhr2k2hk"]YouTube - Comedy Tonight[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-ttCBHyx8"]YouTube - Miles Gloriosus -- Bring Me My Bride[/ame]

Germania_Echoes · October 4th, 2010, 02:36 AM

Thanks for the replies, everyone! Please keep the suggestions coming! (Songs about the Roman army especially ---- I suppose they are easier to find than those concerning the Celts and ancient Germans . . .)

Germania_Echoes

Thessalonian · October 4th, 2010, 02:04 PM

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBieJ08ByPc&feature=related"]YouTube - Iron Maiden - Alexander The Great - Video Clip[/ame]

Iron Maiden - Alexander The Great - Video Clip

**Kirialax** · October 5th, 2010, 05:33 AM

Perhaps you'll like this: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msRy4vcSX4k"]YouTube - ELUVEITIE - Omnos[/ame]

Germania_Echoes · October 6th, 2010, 10:28 AM

Thanks for the replies, all. To give a better idea of what kind of song I am looking for, my current favorite is Rome: Total War, "Forever." I would like modern songs like that, about the glory of the army, etc, spoken from a man's point of view. Are there any songs like this or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Any game soundtracks / movie soundtracks ("Centurion," "Gladiator", etc. type) that speak of the might of the army as a soldier might see it? Any songs about the Romans' Judean, Celtic, or German campaigns? I'm very picky when it comes to my music, I'm 'fraid :-)

Germania_Echoes

**Salah** · October 6th, 2010, 03:52 PM

Do you have the soundtrack for Gladiator? It's mostly just the music but there is a song or two.

Germania_Echoes · October 7th, 2010, 11:44 AM

Hi, all. I checked out the Gladiator soundtrack but I'm looking more for songs with deeply inspiring lyrics, not just music. I love "Forever" from Rome Total War but cannot find anything like that, a song from a soldier's point of view or a song about the might of Rome and her army. Very frustrating, it is :-P

Germania_Echoes

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