Greatest Roman Military Disaster?

[Goffredo]

Those of western culture are an incredible mix of germanic and roman/greek contributions. But in my opinion the roman culture ultimately won. "History" is a Greek and hence Roman contribution to humanity and the fact we even know about Arminius is because the romans admired him and wanted to tell the "STORY".<br>
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I find it incredible that the "Germans" forgot him! They learned about him when Tacitus' work on germany was found 1000 years later! I believe that there is only a very tenuous trace of him in german myths (is this true?) but certainly no rock carvings have been found in germany to tell the story of Arminius, nothing tangible whatsoever! The Persians (Sassanians) left no written history (strange that all was lost), but they did document the capture of Valerian by Shapur. They had a notion of SELF. They were a STATE that needed to re-assert its existence and artists were payed to produce a permanent record, for the eternal glory of Shapur and the eternal disgrace of Rome! What did the germans DO? What WERE the germans? What did they LEAVE? The very fact I, and maybe all of us, LAMENT the lack of TRACEs is so very WESTERN. We like HISTORY and not just telling myths. The "germans" weren't good even at preserving the story/myth of Arminius!<br>
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Rome really won in my opinion, even beating christianity in sublte ways as the Church, the roman catholic one explicitely, took much from rome (organization, architecture, costumes).<br>
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Of course I am "joking", but am I really? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub45.ezboard.com/ugoffredo.showPublicProfile?language=EN>goffredo</A> at: 4/19/02 6:10:02 pm<br></i>