Since Rome controlled the life of the Judeans, who lived in Rome? If we add to the Greeks, the Syrians, the Egyptians, and the Jews some Numidians, Nubians, and Ethiopians from Africa; a few Arabs, Parthians, Cappadocians, Armenians, Phrygians, and Bithynians from Asia; powerful "barbarians" from Dalmatia, Thrace, Dacia, and Germany; mustachioed nobles from Gaul, poets and peasants from Spain, and "tattooed savages from Britain" - we get an ethnic picture of a very heterogeneous and cosmopolitan Rome. This is the world in which Christianity developed...

the very best of roy orbison', for the first time, features tracks from roy's entire career; from the early days at monument records through to the resurgence of his career in the 1980s with the travelling wilburys.The collection is released on april 23rd 2006 on what would have been the big o's 70th birthday.