Is that true that the EB team dislike Romans ?

[Dayve]

I don't see how anybody could hate any people of EB's time anymore than any others. Back in those days, when it boils down to it every people were just as 'barbaric' as the next. Even the people we today see as the most 'civilized' of the time, the Romans, and to a lesser extent the Greeks, were all barbarians and murderers whose leaders were also barbarians and murderers.

It just so happens that the Romans were the ones who conquered most of the known world, but if they hadn't then somebody else would have, and they would have enslaved/exterminated/extorted whoever they felt like just as did the Romans.

The only real difference of the day was culture. Behind the culture every people were just as violent as the next. Romans did their murdering clean-shaven and wearing cool looking armour or elegant looking togas, Gauls did it with long unshaven hair and wearing what would look to us today tattered rags.

Most people in the west have a higher disposition toward the Romans though, myself included, because in school we are told tales of glorious battles fought by the legions, wonderful buildings made of marble and the utmost civilization of the day. But nobody else is glorified. We aren't told tales of Gauls or Cartheginans.

Before R:TW i never even knew what a Gaul or Cartheginian was or that the Greeks conquered the east. And before EB i had no idea that ancient 'barbarian' tribes weren't barbarians at all really, just not as technologically advanced as Rome was. I almost had a heart attack when i found out it was 'barbarians' that invented soap, and the Germans used to wash everyday! I had always imagined them as a horde of smelly, unwashed, unshaven mob of cultureless bandits and raiders.