Daily. Recently watched https://new.thechosen.tv/, I'm not religious at all but it was a good watch and has a lot of Roman references.
How often do you think about the Roman Empire?
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Once a week only because one of my favorite songs references Rome:
Rise Against - Survivor Guilt
Rise Against - Survivor Guilt
CycloneErik
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What happened to the Roman Empire is what we're doing to ourselves currently, Destroying our civilization from within.
Rome Imperator - I like
Total War
Total War
Oh there is no doubt there. I also love compiling stats. I'm not a sabermetrics guy but I love spread sheets and breaking down film and even spent 2 years as a video analyst at a small college levels - FCS and NAIA before realizing financially I was not going anywhere so I returned to the education field. Not that I'm rolling in money but its certainly an improvement lol
I saw this trend on social media yesterday and my first thought was "this is the whitest thing I've ever seen"
That's a tad simplistic. Yes and no.
Rome's civilization did not entirely crumble from within. There were external pressures from an overburdened system of government that failed to change and modify itself coupled with the splitting of the empire into two, which essentially left the more financially stable and food producing eastern Empire in a more secure position than the West coupled with Rome's policy of assimilation and success, earlier a strength and a symbol of stability and power and the army's rise to prominence of being the sole body controlling the Emperor - turned into a society that lead to an out sourcing of its military, increasing intolerance of people who were different even as they relied on them and then a serious of highly incompetent leaders coupled with the decay and decline from its own civilization ... so while its common to say Rome collapsed from within, that's not entirely accurate as there were new pressures that came from climate change, migratory peoples , and several waves of disease that depleted Rome's ability to properly defend its borders along with society's change coupled with bad leadership - in many ways it was a perfect storm that Rome was unable to cope with.
all of that lead to the fall of Rome. Well, Western Rome. Eastern Rome of course survived for quite a while.
I’m currently rewatching the Kings And Generals YouTube channel Rome series in chronological order right now. 143 episodes including side episodes. So ya every day currently.
I'm more Science than History so can't say that I've thought about it more than maybe once every couple of years, and then it's just a fleeting thought. I do watch shows on History Channel a lot, but typically they're more about Egypt and the pharaohs, pyramids, etc.
We’re not nearly as flexible as the Romans. They cycled through many forms of government, we won’t make it through one cycle. Also Christianity destroyed the Romans and we have a country built and founded in no small part on the destroyer of civilizations that is Christianity and non-Pagan religions.
CycloneErik
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And all of the sort-of successor states while everyone claimed the name of Rome to show their own legitimacy and all.
Much, much respect for a very solid nerd post. That was really good.
Was trying to decide between weekly and monthly. Picked weekly. Lots of movies/series I watch seem to have Italy backdrops. Nothing like Venice or the Coliseum to momentarily think about the history of the settings. Also, watched the Miniseries "Rome" fairly recently; pretty cool if you like sex, violence and political intrigue. Lastly, the random news feed I check daily often has stories about Roman coins or historical artifact finds so it does come up a lot.
It's amazing how many people wave to me with Roman Numeral 1. So clearly a lot of people think about Rome.
Usually you will see the ancient Romans with British accents in movies/tv. They have generic American accents in this show. Fitting IMO.
Wasn't aware that all of those barbarian tribes were Christians before Rome fell.
About as often as ancient Greeks and Egyptians, colonial America, or any other notable time period. Never unless I'm watching or reading something related.
The one thought that has always stuck with me is that ancient Egyptians had archeologists studying their own 4000 year old history.
The one thought that has always stuck with me is that ancient Egyptians had archeologists studying their own 4000 year old history.
