Why the Romans are better than the Greeks

They teach Perikles in History of Art? Whatever for?

 

He instigated the building of the Parthenon (and the whole Acropolis), among other things.

 

But that's architecture? ...

Ah, what do I know? Next to nothing about art, though I have worked as a faux-architect for a few weeks one summer. Did the blueprints for a historical mill, a mansion, and my uncle's summer house.

And then I was fired for not actually being an architect.

 

So architecture isn't art? Yes it is; it's a way of sculpting.


Well, maybe today it isn't, but it was back then.

 

I'm too lazy to look him up. Who is he, and what has he done?

 

He was the third Wright brother. (The other two are credited with inventing the airplane, Orville, and Wilbur)

Frank was the autistic third child. He was frequently causing mishaps, much to his parents chagrin. Well, as the story goes, he started drawing airplane designs, blueprints, and the like. Wilbur saw him doing this, and one day attacked him, and stole the blueprints, all the while calling Frank a "drooling retard". Wilbur and Orville went on the design the first airplane that actually flew and Frank never lived it down. He torched his mom and dad's home while they were asleep, killing them, and then led law officials on a 2 week man-hunt through the hills of North Carolina. When he was finally caught, he was covered in human feces, and had apparently been feeding on live squirrels. He was shot, supposedly while "resisting" arrest.

And that's that.

 

Ok. Im not going to pretend i know that much about the Romans or the Greeks but i do know that the Romans got a city and the Greeks got a country. Thats about as far as my knowledge on the subject streches. But all that means nothing anyway.
Id you have seen the film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059045/ then you ALL know that the Vikings were the best!
As untrue to the viking way of life this film is and the fact that its set about 300 years after the whole Viking era (about 800-1100), its still a hilarious movie. Its sort of like an old time Viking version of John Matrix out of the film Commando. (As im sure your all aware was played by the beefy {ex beefy} sob Arnie Shwartz}. Its basically like theres this viking who's hard as fuck. Im talking like, "I SHIT NAILS" kind of hard and he decides to help out this woman and kid from this big bad bastard who wants to be king. Ohh, and she's an ugly bitch but for some reason this "Wannabee King" wants a piece. Weird but an awesome movie.
Anyway more to the point.
Ummmm, romans id say. thanks to the series I Claudious or however that name is spealt.
[Edit] Also i find Roman mythology facinating.

 

You should read the book, bard. It's awesome.

 

I liked the (two) Claudius books until I noticed how much Graves hated Germans - then it started to annoy me a bit. I also don't particularly like him calling Roman pila by the semi-Zulu word assegai. Makes a bit of mockery of the immersion for me. The druid stuff was nice, but again totally false.

I think I'll stop now.

 

ROME is a really good series. It includes soo much... Fighting, nudes scens, brilliant landscapes and it's over all fascinating. But, the greeks were cooler. The common roman soldier were really awesome, but the greek hoplites were more than awesome. They were... the most awesome armed force during the antiquity (is that really the word?). Okey, the roman architecture beat the greek architecture, but the greeks still win in the long run.

 

Their Gods have cooler names, and they didn't steal them, unlike some other Roman fellows...

 

Yeah, that too.

 

The Romans didn't care for other cultures; if they had good fighters, they recruited them. If they had a decent culture; sure, they could keep it, but the Roman culture always came in first hand.
They only imitated the greeks because the greeks were the greatest people of that time.

 

The Romans ruled the ancient world, and they did it by conquering and drafting everyone they came in contact with. Unfortunately, debauchery and internal strife ended the worlds first and greatest Republic.

Their architecture kicked ass too.

 

The Vorakians live in a tyranny. That's different from a Rebublic in quite a few ways, dear Vorak.