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Rome is overrated 02/15/25(Sat)13:43:41 No.17514827

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Rome is overrated Anonymous 02/15/25(Sat)13:43:41 No.17514827

Am I the only one who thinks so? Their intellectuals piggybacked off of 99% Greek stuff. They were essentially warlord niggers with good logistics. With the power they had, they should have done more.

>>17514827
This is the cursed timeline truely. Had Alexander not been poisoned by his treacherous Hellenic allies, he would have formed the GRECO-PERSIAN-ARABIAN-INDIAN-CHINESE empire and we would've been in space by 300 AA (AFTER ALEXANDER).

>>17514827
Well, the fact that it lasted for almost 2000 years is really remarkable

>>17514848
vgh...the globohomoslop empire....

Kinda, but not really.
I mean they still produced Juvenal, Virgil, Horace, Lucian, Livy...
But it's indeed interesting how much greek they took, to the point their native culture kinda got replaced

>>17514853
One of innovation, not of stagnation (Rome)

>>17514827
But you can still credit them with creating the basis of modern judiciary system

>>17514827
>They were essentially warlord niggers
This is 95% of humanity until liberalism was forced on everyone. Rome didn't invent sacking, war , imperialism or anything bad you can lable them, they were just very good at it for a while. It happened before them, it happened after them. The remain 5% are hunter gathers who never bothered anyone.

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>>17514827
Rome Had its puropose
To spread greek ideas with their Military Power through Europe(by conquest)
And then they served this puropose so they Had to be destroyed

Also overrated is a terrible world, literally the most buzzword of buzzwords. Just say you don't like the Romans, "overrated" is a word for cowards who don't want to sound like a contrarian by implying everyone else is wrong for liking something without doing the leg work to prove you are truely in the right. You are completely with in your right to hate the Romans but own your dislike of them, don't hide behind that word.

I utterly hate people who jerk off to Roman statues and try to present Rome as some peak of human civilization and spirit, but still, you have to admit that they did one thing better than basically anyone: they managed to hold their shit together.

Yeah, they conquered a lot of land, but they’re not the only ones who managed to make fast and impressive conquests. But they sure as hell were the only ones who managed to keep a system with such a stable continuity across such a large realm in era of pre-modern communications. Resilience.

>>17515081
Blessed image.

>>17514827
>Rome is overrated
not nearly as overrated as that vile propaganda mill jourchan

>>17514827
A certain stamp of savagery lay on the whole Roman civilization, in the sense that they looked at culture as their trophy. Even the refined Romans often treated Greek logic and natural philosophy as "useless whims", giving preference to ethics and political philosophy. It was in Plutarch: in the biography of Pyrrhus of Epirus, Pyrrhus' adviser, talking to the ambassador of the Romans, asked him what his opinion was about the philosophy of Epicurus, he answered that it was a very good thing because it made the Greeks weak and then the Romans would be able to conquer them. The Romans succeeded in unifying the army (obviously), in planning cities - they had this since ancient times, in building roads. Also in the development of jurisprudence, but the systematizers of Roman law were more often from the Hellenistic East. So we must distinguish between the Romans proper and the Latinized people from the eastern provinces, many of whom moved to Italy.

>>17514827
What, creating basically all the politcal ideas, legal ideas and more or less creating the Christian Church in the form we know today not enough? Do you just watch youtube shorts and think that all the Romans ever did was go to war and literally nothing else? The ultra-militarisation of Central Italian society ended by the reign of Nero, you're left with another 400 years where they were exactly not that.

>>17514827
>With the power they had, they should have done more.
With the power they had, it's impressive Rome did as much as they had.
>Pontius, start another civil war.

>>17514827
>obligatory "what have the romans ever done for us?"

>>17514827
Rome is underrrated. Just think about it, emperors who fucked and drank themselves into an early grave, insane emperors, emperors that ruled for a year before getting murdered. Yet the machine kept going.