>>216582712Antiquity was pagan and more kino.
>>216582727I prefer Middle-Ages because I am Christian and all around me is inherently Gothic or Baroque. But yes, I hae seen many Europeans who also prefer antiquity.
The middle ages is more intriguing to me because it's so unknown, either discarded as the dark ages or overwritten by modern interpretations like disney's fairy tales or Tolkien aesthetic, even larpers who spend thousands on cosplay are fantasizing it as a dark age, it's warhammer-lite.even an effort like Kingdom Comes Deliverance stops at the archaeological modern ideal that we have of these people.what were their fantasies and references is pretty unknown for the general public.It's all too often discarded as badly drawn doodles while we made so much efforts to reconnect with the philosophy of ancient times that it feels like the middle ages happened a thousand years more before the antiquity
>>216582712People do renaissance fairs to reenact the middle ages.I haven't seen an equivalent for like ancient greece.
>>216582712Islamic Golden Age or Antiquity for me.
>>216583441That would be pretty fun though, yeah?
>>216583408>The middle ages is more intriguing to me because it's so unknown, either discarded as the dark ages"Dark Ages" is a legitimate term for the period immediately after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but before the rise of the Holy Roman Empire. It overlaps with the Migrations' Period and is roughly contemporaneous with the the rise of Islam.There is no point in lumping the early Middle Ages (intellectually speaking, the true Dark Ages in Western Europe), the High Middle Ages (which, if being generous, can be extended back to Charlemagne's reign, even though the real economic boom and urban population expansion in Western Europe did not take place till the 11th century), and finally the Late Middle Ages (which roughly overlap with the earliest developments of the Renaissance).While it may sound appealing to many to associate a period as long as the Middle Ages with a single mindset, art-style, or way of thinking, such simplifications tend to emerge from a careless reading of long, general history books, as well as an interaction with stereotypes of the Middle Ages and fantasy worlds inspired by European Middle Age-like socieities and art in media such as video games, memes, and Japanese orc rape-themed pornographic comics. Nobody would mentally classify together the days in which the Achaeans fought the Trojans or the days in which Homer and Hesoid lived together with Hellenistic Egypt under the Ptolemies, be it in terms of sculptural forms, the design of shields and weapons, the language spoken, or nor much less the way people thought about themselves or the world, so why should we lump together the era in which Theodoric ruled Italy together with the early days of the Medici family's rule over Tuscany?
>>216583795>and Japanese orc rape-themed pornographic comicsLmao grok is gooner brained
