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What have the Romans ever done for us?
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Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:41 pmby Annia Minucia Marcella
Yes, I'm referencing the Monty Python movie.
So, let's make a list of all the wonderful things that have happened because of the Romans. I'll start:
Roman baths - I wish I could have one.
Re: What have the Romans ever done for us?
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Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:11 amby Valerius Claudius Iohanes
The Res Publica, the governing of the state by the people who constituted the state. (It wasn't perfect, but it became the basic notion of how politics could best work. And the attempts to realize it were much more widely attempted than any to put Plato's republic into practice.)
Re: What have the Romans ever done for us?
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Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:38 pmby Valerius Claudius Iohanes
< Eheu. Silentium tonat! >
I just saw a blurb on a book specifically called,
The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000.
Published by Viking Adult this last July 30, 2009. That should bear on this topic - wonder if it's in the library yet....