Ancient Greece was a time of great learning around ideas of space, time and light and during the subsequent Roman Empire these ideas were mostly embraced.
And this is very similar, really, because a lot of the names come from Roman times, the Roman Empire, the emperors, and so on, Roman mythology, gods and goddesses, that kind of thing, as well as a few Latin words.
So, the reverence given to the color blue goes as far back as the Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire which existed between 330 AD and 1453.
In the late 4th century, as the immense Roman Empire was collapsing, the leading philosopher of the age, St Augustine, became deeply interested in possible explanations for the evident tragic disorder of the human world.
After the Roman Empire faded away, this connection between bad air and bad health persisted, clogging up toilet innovation for more than a thousand years.
By the 1st century BC, Ephesus was one of the largest cities in all of the Roman Empire, boasting one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Temple of Artemis.
With the Roman Empire collapsing, the Roman army was ordered to leave Britain. A group of people from northern Europe toward the angles, Saxons and Jutes, started invading England together. They became known as the Anglo-Saxons.
Here is how the story goes: During the time of the Roman Empire more than 1500 years ago, a Christian leader, Saint Augustine, moved from Rome to Milan.