Not at all am I a qualified historian, but I bet there are some people here who know history stuff quite well. I'm just wondering if you can explain something to me about Rome and today.

Why is it that most people I have a serious conversation with and somehow it ends up being about ancient Rome like Rome? Some people admire Rome and its civilisation, some admire the so-called "greatness" in their conquests, etc.

The way I see it, Rome was a bloody dirty imperialist. A society with a military machine capable of destroying entire cultures, and it did so with great enthusiasm. I see no beauty in that. I only see what's very common to see if it's about so-called civilisations, nations, countries, kingdoms, and you name it. I see power-hungry men who think they're gods or who perform such acts to please gods whose existence isn't even sure.

And still I see there are people who admire their civilisation. When I and a person talk about the Nazi empire it's quickly obvious they are disgusted by it, but for some reason they aren't disgusted by the Romans whose expansionist purpose was more or less the same, as many others throughout history. Power.

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