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Uh... Rome did not conquer Europe by being gathering a lot of Facebook Likes. It did it by defeating the surrounding tribes, kingdoms, and rival empires. The Le
by j-c-hewitt 8y ago
Uh... Rome did not conquer Europe by being gathering a lot of Facebook Likes. It did it by defeating the surrounding tribes, kingdoms, and rival empires. The Legions imposed Roman law and encouraged the adoption of Roman culture and ethics. Popularity did not have all that much to do with it.
NYT reading level keeps plummeting every year to new bottoms.
- adrianratnapala 8y agoThe claim is not that Roman ethics was spread through popularity with the rich. The claim is that one particular strand of ethics within Roman culture did so. That said, I am not sure that Stoicism was particularly rich-friendly, nor that it was necessarily more successful than its competitors.