Originally recorded on my 2012 album of the same title, this new arrangement of "Ode to Ancient Rome" is transformed by the deeper, richer timbre of my recreated kithara - which was as much venerated in ancient Rome as it was in Greece.

This piece features the poignant, yearning quality of the ancient Greek Phrygian Mode, with a simple, elegant melodic line, in an attempt to evoke the regal, classical architecture of ancient Rome, now laying in ruins.

My 2012 recording of this piece will feature in a scene of the 2024 television ancient Roman gladitorial series, "Those About to Die", starring Anthony Hopkins as emperor Vespasian.