01-22-2002, 07:51 PM
So right! Placing events in proper context reveals Rome was, at worst, as bad as the baddest and, at best, far better than the rest. There is little excitement to be derived from a movie with the army building roads that connected a vast empire. There is no angst to be gathered in portraying Roman law delivered to people who previously lived at the whim of tribal kings.<br>
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And, compared to their Greek predecessors, Rome is revealed to have provided common cause for disparate peoples whereas the Greek city states seldom found common cause save for wars with each other or against Persia.<br>
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A thousand years hence America may well be regarded as barbaric for practicing capital punishment. Or, perhaps, fondly remembered for promoting freedom around the world. Seen thru a glass darkly it will be the former. With proper perspective the latter shall prevail. <p></p><i></i>
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And, compared to their Greek predecessors, Rome is revealed to have provided common cause for disparate peoples whereas the Greek city states seldom found common cause save for wars with each other or against Persia.<br>
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A thousand years hence America may well be regarded as barbaric for practicing capital punishment. Or, perhaps, fondly remembered for promoting freedom around the world. Seen thru a glass darkly it will be the former. With proper perspective the latter shall prevail. <p></p><i></i>
