Vanishing Lessons of Ancient Rome
by Elizabeth McTaggart
Title
Vanishing Lessons of Ancient Rome
Artist
Elizabeth McTaggart
Medium
Digital Art - Fractal Art And Digital Collage
Description
Vanishing Lessons of Ancient Rome
Ancient Roman society contributed greatly to modern government, law, politics, engineering, art, literature, architecture, technology, warfare, religion, language and society. A civilization highly developed for its time, Rome professionalized and greatly expanded its military and created a system of government called res publica, the inspiration for modern republics such as the United States and France. It achieved impressive technological and architectural feats, such as the construction of an extensive system of aqueducts and roads, as well as large monuments, palaces, and public facilities.
After some 1200 years of independence and nearly 700 years as a great power, the rule of Rome in the West ended. Various reasons why it ended have been proposed ever since, including loss of Republicanism, moral decay, military tyranny, class war, slavery, economic stagnation, environmental change, disease, the decline of the Roman race, as well as the inevitable ebb and flow that all civilizations experience. At the time many pagans argued Christianity and the decline of traditional Roman religion were responsible, as did some rationalist thinkers of the modern era due to a change from a martial to a more pacifist religion that lessened the size of available soldiers, while Christians such as Saint Augustine argued the sinful nature of Roman society itself was to blame.
It all sounds so familiar.... Are we really doomed to repeat the past?
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