All roads lead to Rome

All roads lead to Rome is a traditional saying . It refers to Rome as the origin (and therefore the destination) of the former Roman road network . The phrase can be understood in the sense of “all possibilities lead to the goal”.

The variant Many roads lead to Rome is also common, but falsifies the meaning.

Others

• A book by Adalbert Seipolt from 1958 is entitled All roads lead to Rome ,
• An expansion for the board game "Thurn und Taxis" is called All roads lead to Rome ,
• A piece of music by the band Fettes Brot from 1998 is called 'Many roads lead to Rome' (album Fettes Brot lets greetings )
• 'All roads lead to Rome' is a digital storytelling project initiated by the Working Group of Independent Cultural Institutes eV (AsKI) from 2019. Individual reports trace travel routes, report encounters and experiences, enthusiasm and disappointment, study visits and exile . They are all about different people and play at different times.

Web links

Wiktionary: all roads lead to Rome  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Gerhard Müller: All roads lead to Rome (PDF; 126 kB)
• Storytelling project: All roads lead to Rome