If the Romans descended from Aeneas, how come they completely forgot how to build ships, despite living so close to the coast? The Greeks never did, not even after the bronze age collapse. Not to mention how good timber is way more abundant in Italy. Sounds like a bunch of crappy polentone propaganda ngl. Romans were no better than the rest of mudhutters.
>>18330088>If the Romans descended from AeneasThey didn't. They descended from italo-celtic tribals, not Trojans. It was ultracope, very typical for Romans who couldn't bear the idea that they were degenerate primitives with no real history (after they abandoned their oral traditions to LARP as a great civilization)
the Romans were primitive near-ooga boogas until coming into contact with Greek colonies in southern Italy
>>18330102Kinda funny how the Romans viewed anyone else as barbarian (especially the trouser wearing Persians) but paid no mind to two of their early myths full of barbarian characters. A brother slaying another, and early Rome being settled by mainly brigands and any man every other settlement nearby refuses. No one would even marry their daughters off to the Romans so they had to capture the Sabine women.
