And I couldn’t help but think - the period described in the video was separated from the founding of the Empire under Augustus by almost a hundred years more than the time between us and Peter 1. And the proclamation of the Roman Republic was as distant from Valentinian as the Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus’ is from us. And that’s not even the middle of the Dominate yet. The collapse of the West would only happen a hundred years later. And the collapse of the East and its transformation into the medieval Byzantium - two and a half centuries later.Empires aren’t supposed to last that long… Hell, STATES aren’t supposed to last that long! I never stop being amazed by the greatness of that civilization.
Yeah like between Julius Caesar and Marcus Aurelius there were 200 years. So Julius Caesar would be as remote to Marcus Aurelius as someone from 1826 is to us
>>221410654And the time between Caesar and Valentinian was longer than the US has existed as an independent country. And we have horrifically invasive and predatory intelligence agencies and super weapons to keep our stranglehold on power. While the Romans were super primitive and very unstable in comparison. So very impressive accomplishment from your ancestors Luigibro
>>221410654technological progress is exponential now and we keep getting richer, whereas Theodosius lived in a world that was technologically the same as that of Augustus, only poorer, less populated and changed by serfdom, the cultural and demographic influences of the age of migration and imperial absolutism.
>>221410248Yawn... pathetic.
*Valentinian II really liked the tidbit on wiki about how he died from screaming at Scythian envoys too hard, people in the region where he was from (Croatia, Serbia) are still like that today
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>>221411688>>221411775What’s most astonishing is that it was the same state. Between the Battle of Zama and the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains lies a span of 653 years. Yet, both Scipio and Aetius fought for the very same statehood.What were England, France, Germany, and Russia like 650 years earlier? They were nothing of the sort, because they didn’t even exist (at least not in the sense we understand them today). Over 650 years, countless traditions and state formations had already risen and fallen. While between the Republic, the Principate, and the Dominate, there was direct continuity. Of course, they constantly evolved and transformed over time, but it was all one continuous statehood (which, de facto, could even be extended all the way to the fall of Constantinople in the 15th century, though we won’t go there).
