Did the Romans really just copy the Greeks? #shorts

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[sleepless]

Roman concrete has recently been discovered. They mixed lime in concrete and when ever cracks form it’ll form where the lime are and when every it rains the cracks would be filled with water mixing with the lime thus fixing itself.

[TetsuShima]

"Greeks are always inventing something. Why are they so clever?"
"If they're so clever, why are they a province of ours instead of vice versa?"
*Conversation between Emperor Augustus and his nephew/heir Marcellus*

[savvageorge]

Rome was very close geographically to the Greek speaking world. The Greek colony of Naples, founded by Greeks, was only 1 day on horseback from the city of Rome. All of the Roman upper-classes spoke Greek fluently and some of them even spoke Greek as a first language. Rome was bilingual right from the beginning and maybe even during the time of the Etruscans as well.

[TetsuShima]

The conflicts between the Greeks and Romans (from the Pyrrhic Wars to the Battle of Corinth) are so fascinating that it's absurd that Hollywood just ignored them. At best, there's the 1961 movie "The Centurion" (starring Drew Barrymore's father), but it's not a very good one.

[es]

The reason for this is the huge respect that Roman’s had for Greeks they considered them as equals and those of higher status often sent their kids to learn in Greece. It makes sense that the knowledge would be so intermingled after a few generations of people studying in Greece. I love this channel.

[paocut]

Rome's greatest strength was it's ability to adopt and improve parts of the cultures it conquered. Rome was extreamly adaptable and when it was that it's enemy had something good, they incorporated it with their own knowledge and great improved it. The best example I think is the fact that some had no navy before the 1st Punic war, but after it found 1 carthagian ship, they made a navy so powerful that it defeated the biggest and strongest naval power of the time

[JohnCataldo]

Don't forget the Etruscans and the influence they had on early Rome before Greek Culture

[PrestonSikes]

Their roads were always the most fascinating to me. How can tanks and cars and caravans of people roll over them for 1000s of years without a dent, but the highway that was just built already has potholes....

[Ludovicus]

The Greeks were master-mathematicians, there is no doubt about it. Absolutely phenomenal. But the Romans were master-engineers, where they too were great.

[muscledavis]

I learned in archaeology that after the Romam Empire became more and more hellenized, there was a consent amongst the Romans that Greece was culturally superior to Rome, and that although Rome had a military victory over them, greece had a cultural victory over Rome.
What i love about this is that even the Romans with all their belief of superiority saw greek art and culture as something so close to the ideal that they HAD to put it above themselves. Which is even more remarkable when considering that the culture wasn't even THAT different (other than when comparing it e.g. with Persia)

[joelex]

After Rome conquered Greece they struck their coins with Greek images to show Greece and the rest of the world how much they admired Greek culture. Having said that Roman engineers were second to none.

[saxtonhalegaming]

No mention of the severely underrated Etruscans. The Romans were so successful because they took already impressive inventions and ideas and either modified them or improved them. They adapted, which is why they were successful. When something worked, they made sure to use it.

[tuluppampam]

"Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit" - Horatius in his Epistulae

Conquered Greece took the barbarous winners (as in Greek culture won over Roman)

[Conartist]

"The romans were absolut master builders and engineers"
-Meanwhile Etruskans standing in the corner, slightly salty that noone even knows who they were were anymore.

[vegtano]

We both have great culture 🇬🇷🇮🇹 stessa faccia stessa razza

[michaeljames]

I've always been interested in Greco-Roman culture, and no matter the multiple classes in uni that I took on the subject and even knowing some if not most of the info shared here, this 'short' was so interesting. Thank you, I've always enjoyed your channel and was in the first 300 subscribers. Thanks again for your hard work. Keep it up...for us, your subscribers. (And bc I am sure that, like me, you enjoy researching the subject matter.)

[aleftwinggamer]

I love how Carthage and Egypt are always left out of where Rome and Greece got a lot of "Their inventions" from lol

[Corgilius]

Aqueducts are technically borrowed as well, just perfected and changed to perfection. Like the Gladius.

[dominicadrean]

If Greece was Unified they could have been a superpower in the ancient world but it's city-states eventually it for its conquest and destruction

[marcstein]

As a european i think USA is like the roman empire and europe is like ancient greece. I can see how the latter inspired the first and are kind of their ancestors, but then the student outshines the master and creates an empire in which the once master is under his protection 😃also ancient greece was divided among many kingdoms and states as is europe while rome was more one big empire like the US.