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Just wait for Hollywood to create a film about Roman mythology and not cast a single Roman! But less tongue-in-cheek, the other thing is that the legacy of the
by Insanity 4mo ago
Just wait for Hollywood to create a film about Roman mythology and not cast a single Roman!
But less tongue-in-cheek, the other thing is that the legacy of the Romans is pretty much all around us. The Roman Calendar (with July and August both referencing a Roman leader), the Latin alphabet (with the additional letters like 'y' being added later on to support Greek), the roads we can travel, etc.
- toyg 4mo agoIt's not only July and August; January, May, June, and Mars, are named after Roman gods; February and April after Roman rituals; and September to December after Roman numerals (7 to 10th month, as they were when the calendar first started).
- Insanity 4mo agoYup exactly :) I named July/August for the connection to real people, but yeah it’s pretty much all around us.
- Zardoz84 4mo agoAlso the weekdays in many Latin derived languages.
- bloppe 4mo agoAlso the vast majority of the rest of the vocabulary in those languages
- benj111 4mo ago>Mars While not technically incorrect(?) I'm guessing you meant March?
- baud147258 4mo agoMaybe they're French and forgot to translate that month (in French March = mars)
- toyg 4mo agoYeah, freudian slip.
- epolanski 4mo agoEvery modern law system has its roots in Roman one.
- dpe82 4mo ago> *English Common Law* has entered the chat
- adolph 4mo agoThis brings to mind the wonderful Econtalk episode about Bruno Leoni [0]. The beginning of the podcast describes his untimely passing, which almost seems a Cohen brothers movie plot. So, we pore over Supreme Court cases on the First Amendment, for example, to try to interpret what tests we will use to determine whether something is going to be unconstitutional law. Leoni didn't want that. He argued that--and again, he was proud of the Roman law contribution. He said that the Roman jurist was a sort of scientist: that the object of his research was a solution to cases that citizens submitted to him for study. So, an industrialist or a scientist might look to a physicist to engineer a technical problem. So, private Roman law was something to be described or discovered, not something to be enacted. So, over time, these principles emerge. 0. https://www.econtalk.org/the-underrated-bruno-leoni-with-michael-munger/#audio-highlights https://www.econtalk.org/the-underrated-bruno-leoni-with-mic...
- benj111 4mo agoInteresting. As an unhappy user of the court system I have made these same points. Although I linked it back to the enlightenment. The law should be akin to the scientific method. Unfortunately like science it is full of humans, so reputation is important, etc, etc. unfortunately the judiciary is far worse than the scientific community.
- astrobe_ 4mo agoStill romanian. "The common law—so named because it was common to all the king's courts across England—originated in the practices of the courts of the English kings in the centuries following the Norman Conquest in 1066" [1] France (and Normandy) was conquered by Rome before it was granted to Rollo, a Viking. A few generations later, his descendant William the Conqueror claimed the English crown. Just like what happened with Gauls and Romans, the conquered people adopted large parts of the language and customs of the conqueror. That's why the English language is ~25% of Roman origin for it's vocabulary. I suppose it is the same for English common law. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#History
- frollogaston 4mo agoThey're always British in film for some reason
- throw4847285 4mo agoNot in the underrated movie The Eagle! In that one, the soldier from the world's dominant global empire has an American accent, and the actual Briton slave has a British accent.
- frollogaston 4mo agoI should watch that one. Not that surprising since it's a British film. There's also Waterloo which cast English as English, Scottish as Scottish, French as American, and German as idk foreign, plus tons of extras either yelling in French or saying nothing in Russian.
- throw4847285 4mo agoAnd of course there's Death of Stalin where everybody just uses either their own accent or they're Jason Isaacs who went for over the top Yorkshire. I love creative accent work in movies. I recently watched Pride and Prejudice, and Donald Sutherland clearly isn't doing an English accent but it works somehow.
- high_5 4mo agoBecause of the allusion to British Empire?
- frollogaston 4mo agoIt's probably because anything set in ancient or medieval times in American film uses British accents. You'll seen it for Rome, Sparta, Macedonia, and even Persia.