Eternal City

Timeless Italian capital

Eternal City is a longstanding epithet for Rome, referring to the ancient belief that the city would endure forever regardless of the rise and fall of empires.

The phrase appears in classical Latin writers and remains common today: We spent a week exploring the Eternal City.

ItalyBoot-shaped European nation
la dolce vitaLifestyle of luxury and pleasure
Roman holidayPleasure from witnessed suffering
when in RomeAdapt to local norms
PantheonRoman temple for all gods

Colosseum · Rome · capital · cultural · Roman law · Seven Hills · Romulus · timelessness · everlasting · Tiber River · marble statues · immortality · enduring · Trevi Fountain · ancient · heritage · Roman Empire · perpetual

Opposites

permanence/duration

Eternal Cityghost town

Deserted former inhabited place

boom town · abandoned city · company town · frontier town · shantytown

symbolic gravitas

Eternal Citybackwater

Stagnant side channel

flyover country · Podunk · one-horse town

fate/destruction

Eternal CityPompeii

Volcano-buried Roman city

Atlantis · lost city · Carthage · Sodom and Gomorrah · Troy

Family

eternal, eternity, eternally, eternalize, city, cities, citizen, citizenship, civic

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Profile: Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G