Where, instead, slowed by the downright Roman heat, calmed by the way time felt on hold, people were actually talking, pausing, lingering.
OCTOBER 21 When Pope Paul retired in mid-July to Castel Gandolfo, in the Alban Hills, where he goes every summer to escape the Roman heat, it was though that, as in former years, no important business would take place.
During the Roman summer, oppressive heat waves are common, leaving captive tourists to bake in museum halls lacking air conditioning or roast on cobblestone streets.
The ruins of a Roman bath, which had heated rooms just like you'd get in Pompeii, can be visited just a few metres from their garden.
This made it ideal for wine storage and caves were excavated to keep wine cool in the heat of the Roman summer.
Mottisfont Abbey, off the A3057 Romsey to Stockbridge, four miles north of Romsey CTB In the basement of Waterstone's bookshop on St Margaret's Street is a fine example of the world's first central heating system: a Roman hypocaust, built to heat the building above, which is thought to have been the city's public baths.
From hot springs, geothermal energy has been used for bathing since Paleolithic times and for space heating since ancient Roman times, but it is now better known for electricity generation.
In ancient times, baths heated by hot springs were used by the Greeks and Romans, and examples of geothermal space heating date at least as far back as the Roman city of Pompeii during the 1st century ce.
"London is a unique fusion of history and peoples, of ancient globe-girdling empire and the quotidian now, of Roman ghosts and the white heat of 21st century capital formation".
He finished the race in 11.17 seconds, placing seventh in his heat ahead of Roman William Cress from the Marshall Islands (11.18 seconds) and behind Béranger Bosse of the Central African Republic (10.51 seconds).
