Salvete
Any ideas on how we can bring "life" back in this collegium? Any ideas or suggestions?
valete optime
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Salvete
Any ideas on how we can bring "life" back in this collegium? Any ideas or suggestions?
valete optime
Also useful, for starters: what do you (dis)like about Greek culture? How do YOU think it compares to Roman culture?
I've seen Hellenists denigrate Rome for being too dry, rigid, unimaginative, and legalistic. To me the Romans' penchant for pragmatism is exactly what makes them so endearing. A tough, sturdy, no-nonsense people who rolled up their proverbial sleeves and embraced life's challenges with a facile grasp. I think there is a lesson contained within somehwere for postmodern society.
I do appreciate at times the somewhat more aesthetic strains running through ancient Greece, but I feel the Greeks can at times be accused of an excess of idealism or abstraction. Any culture that could produce Plato needed a reality adjustment (I suppose if you are endeared to Plato you would vastly disagree).
A book I read once made the observation that the Romans' soul allowed them to conquer an empire, but in conquering their empire and adopting Oriental strains of thought they eventually lost their native soul ...
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