Re:The Triumph of Stupidity (1933)
by mcguire on Friday November 27, 2015 @11:33AM
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"Ancient Rome was not a particularly "civilized" place if you look at it by, say, medieval English standards."
One of the odd things about the fascination with Greece and Rome as the basis of all civilization (ahem) is the failure to understand how alien those civilizations were.
One of the odd things about the fascination with Greece and Rome as the basis of all civilization (ahem) is the failure to understand how alien those civilizations were.