Originally Posted by
Svarog
My thoughts on Rome, to sum it up in the first sentence, negative and impressive, contradictory opinions are always present when it comes to Rome, if Ancient Greece is considered a cradle of European civilization, Rome can be considered as a cradle - of filth - in European civilization. I can't help it but to think about Roman social perversion and immoral nature first when it comes to this thread and about everything else later, and by that I certainly do not mean on sexual perversion although when it comes to that Romans were kind of sick too, homosexuality, incests and orgies in front of everything.
When it comes to culture I also have no respect for Rome as most of it was copy-paste from the Greeks mostly with minimal effort to change a thing or two, also, a piece of Roman culture came with each Barbaric nation conquered, they would take whatever they like, from religion to simple customs, Romans... just when you take a look who were the first elite citizens of Rome and how did all of they got where they did, it's not much to be surprised off.
Even military of Rome as impressive as it is was took from elsewhere tho they did invented many things and their style of waring is one of the things I do respect, also, how their country was organized most of the time as it really had it bad moments, 'their' architecture, again, a lot was took elsewhere and many actual workers were not Romans but the slaves of the empire, when i think about it, I don't really have any positive opinions about Rome :eek:
Tho.. I did shorten this up as I just woke up and am too lazy to type and think
edit: now when i kind of woke up and read whole thread i realized I completely missed the subject hahaha I read the title your opinions on Rome but what i did not get is that it is meant on their activities aka waring policy, will reply later, gotta work now
later