RE: A documentary on the Roman empire
January 14, 2013 at 10:27 am
(This post was last modified: January 14, 2013 at 10:51 am by jonb.)
(January 12, 2013 at 2:09 am)Chuck Wrote: No, it's more like the advancements made by the Romans were too practical to impress the simpleton scribes of the dark ages or to tickle the fancies of the airy romantic. So you underestimate their potential importance.
Even if we accept the Romans had anything, to pass on they would have to know about it themselves, by the time Rome was falling It had itself already lost the knowledge. To say the simpletons of the dark ages, is just plain daft, their technologies were not in anyway inferior to those of the Romans, they were far more practical.
Does the democracy we have now come from the Greek form, or is its origins in the culture of the North Europeans?
Is the belief in the independent individual of Roman origin or from North European Culture?
For a very long time it has been in the interests of the Church of Rome to play up Roman achievements. It has been in the interests of aristocratic Europe to trace an antecedence from Rome as a foundation to their position. And It has been in the interests of Empires to claim Empires are good things to be admired.
Maybe as an atheist it might be worthwhile re-evaluating evidence, rather than just accepting the dogma passed on to us.
I cannot find it, but I saw in this thread a mention about how the christians did not clean themselves true so lets look at this.
The Roman Bath house proof of superiority? I don't think so.
The Romans referred to the dirty Celts because the Celts cleaned themselves with soap! Where as the Roman had to sit in a succession of hot and cold water pools and scrape themselves with knives to get anyway near as clean. Even so the rich Roman ladies liked to smear themselves with the sweat and dirt from Gladiators. Cleanliness; no not really a Roman attribute. If you think it was; Why don't you give up soap and try and do it the Roman way?
