HannibalBarca3 posted...
What. Oh it's the username lol
Honestly despite the username I really don't know much about Rome. I asked because the other day I read a pretty interesting article that made a pretty convincing case that the Romans during the Republic do not live up to the image we associate them with. One of highly disciplined men fighting like a pack of sardines, that one famous battle scene from HBO's
Rome
comes to mind. Instead the Romans have much more in common with fierce and aggresive, undisciplined and individual barbarian stereotype.
In the interest of full disclosure, my interest in Roman Culture has been their engineering exploits and, well, their culture.
However, from what I recall, their true innovation (aside from learning to crib unashamedly from the Greeks like they are The Hawt Girl in a class from The Bookish Submissive Nerd) was to strictly codify military practice. Honestly, they tore strips off most of Europe and expanded outwards before societal pressures began to tear the civilisation apart from within (this begetting the Eastern and Western Roman Empires). They were an Empire that became defined and made whole by constant, unsustainable expansion.
Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate.