How would you describe the politics and cultures of some faction?

[VikingPower]

Hello there.

I am attempting to create a setting for a role-playing games and I am looking for some short overview of the following cultures:

1. Barbarian culture (Lusotana, Celts, Sweboz, Getai).

2. Romans

3. Hellenic

3. Eastern Nomad cultures

Like if I would be describing the Roman culture then I could speak about the tension between the Plebeians and Patricians, how popular generals could overthrow the government, how all pompous expression of glory and 'for Rome' was merely a tool to increase the landowners power even more, and so forth.

[QuintusSertorius]

Roman and Hellenic were sufficiently different (at least until much later Roman Republic) to have overviews of their own. Often the problems between the Romans and Hellenistic powers was because they simply didn't understand each other.

[fomalhaut]

Well the Hellenes seemed, to me at least, to be very ethnocentristic self important jerks, but that's just me.

And the broad 'Hellenic' blanket might not be sufficient, as you can't realy compare the culture of Sparte, or Athens, or Massalia, or Syracuse yet they are certainly are Hellenic cultures

Maybe when talking to barbaroi they would assume the Hellenic term as a way to attribute to a wider and perceived superior culture, but when talking to eachother you know they would be all about their home polis

[QuintusSertorius]

Well the Hellenes seemed, to me at least, to be very ethnocentristic self important jerks, but that's just me.

And the broad 'Hellenic' blanket might not be sufficient, as you can't realy compare the culture of Sparte, or Athens, or Massalia, or Syracuse yet they are certainly are Hellenic cultures

Maybe when talking to barbaroi they would assume the Hellenic term as a way to attribute to a wider and perceived superior culture, but when talking to eachother you know they would be all about their home polis

And the Romans were the same, according to their own (different) mores. Even after the Romans conquered the Greeks, the Greeks still regarded Romans as half-barbarous and barely civilised. Hell, look at the way they regarded Macedonians even after Philip then Alexander put them down.

[VikingPower]

The Greeks were always quarrelsome and windbags in their nature.

Like how ignorant can people get in destroying each other in city-state warfare within a territory which was about 1/60 of the whole Persian empire AFTER they became aware that they could beat that empire.

Its like when Xenophon said that all Greeks knew what was right but the Spartans alone acted upon it (in the tale about the old man which could not get a seat).

The most industrious nation wins, but a great libraries can not save peoples whom are without discipline.

[antisocialmunky]

Eastern Nomad Cultures:

Ride horses, pillage dudes, acquire gold and chicks, repeat.

[artavazd]

Hello there.

I am attempting to create a setting for a role-playing games and I am looking for some short overview of the following cultures:

1. Barbarian culture (Lusotana, Celts, Sweboz, Getai).

2. Romans

3. Hellenic

3. Eastern Nomad cultures

Like if I would be describing the Roman culture then I could speak about the tension between the Plebeians and Patricians, how popular generals could overthrow the government, how all pompous expression of glory and 'for Rome' was merely a tool to increase the landowners power even more, and so forth.

might want to add "Eastern Feudalism", or "Helenic Feudalism" because factions such as Armenia and Pontus do not fit with Eastern Nomad culture (neither were nomadic )