RE: Archaeologists Find Athenian Naval Base
June 22, 2016 at 8:10 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2016 at 8:13 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 19, 2016 at 3:34 pm)abaris Wrote:(June 19, 2016 at 3:28 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Here you go, Abs. While you are on your tour of ancient ports you can stop in at Cape Misenum.
https://pompeiitourguide.me/2013/10/21/miseno-cape/
Quote:I was always impressed by how modern they were. Until cinvilization took a huge step in the wrong direction. Makes you wonder where we would be by now, if Rome hadn't been vanquished.
![[Image: 800px-Herculaneum_Bootshaeuser.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Herculaneum_Bootshaeuser.jpg/800px-Herculaneum_Bootshaeuser.jpg)
Was Rome really headed towards modernity, or did Rome acquired certain isolated resemblance to modernity for reasons completely different from any General progress towards modernity?
In most ways, late antiquity Rome was no more modern than china of the same era. China did not fall, and yet did not attain modernity on her own in the subsequent 1600 years. Why would Rome have?
