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05-27-2006, 07:17 PM
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Romans or Greeks?
My friend and I got into a pretty heated discussion about this last night. OOT, help us decide.
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05-27-2006, 07:19 PM
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Re: Romans or Greeks?
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which is what? [/ QUOTE ] The nature of the question is just which one you think is better. For whatever reasons you can give.
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#4
05-27-2006, 07:23 PM
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Re: Romans or Greeks?
your loc and this thread make sense.
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#6
05-27-2006, 07:45 PM
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Greeks and It is Not Even Close
Alexander the Great was going to conquer Rome and only his death saved Rome. After Alexander's death, his generals Seleucia was going to lead the Greek empire but his assassination caused the final fragmenting of the Greek empire. The remaining Greek generals divided up the Greek lands among themselves. The Greeks were still the most powerful culture then. They controlled almost all the ancient great cities in that part of their world.
The problem with the Greeks is the kept fighting among themselves and Rome kept playing the individual Greek kingdoms off on one each other. When Rome conquered Sparta and Macaedonia, the remaining Greek states could have united but instead Seleucia attack Pergamum and Rome came to Pergamum's rescue. The King of Pergamum was so grateful he gave his kingdom to Rome in his will. Rome is analogous to a shortstack that keeps getting lucky and eventually wins the tourney. Rome played the game well but they had to get lucky and they needed the Greeks to fight among themselves. But even after Rome conquered the remaining Greek states, the Greeks conquer Rome from the inside through the Greek culture. Many Roman embraced Greek philosophy and Greek tutors were in VERY high demand among wealthy Romans. Thousands of Romans learned Greek. Some Romans like Cato felt very threaten about the popularity of Greek culture and tried to stop the spread of Greek culture through laws. The Romans may have won the wars but the Greek culture won in the end...... Even when the barbarians sacked Rome, it was the Greek part of them Roman empire that survived and became the great Byzantine empire. The western world is a Greek world and the Romans were just along for the ride...
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#9
05-27-2006, 08:00 PM
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Re: Romans or Greeks?
Haha this reminds me of a Family guy quote I can't really remember, something like:
Kid A: THE IRON AGE WAS AWESOME. KID B: NO WAY MAN THE BRONZE AGE COULD KICK THE IRON AGES ASS.
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#10
05-27-2006, 08:08 PM
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Re: Greeks and It is Not Even Close
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Definitely ancient greeks. Google would tend to agree.  [/ QUOTE ] That's because there's no "modern romans" so its redundant to use both search terms.
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