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It is very slightly problematic because a lot of the people in Italy who romanticized the roman empire had a slight correlation to likelihood of having positive opinions of Mussolini…
I don’t think it’s just people in Italy…
I mean, everyone in the West was either a Romaboo or Greekaboo before the fascists ruined it for everyone in the 20s.
No… no, they were not.
The only people who think that are the aforementioned nerds.
No…. no, they were not.
Everyone with an education in the West.
Fuck, man, the entire US government was designed, head-to-toe, with conscious Graeco-Roman trappings. Both the French Revolutionary governments and Napoleon’s Empire modeled themselves after Ancient Rome. Greek and Latin were extremely commonly learned languages in Britain for a country that had little business with Greece or a dead language. Writers from Byron to Shelley to Wilde to the poets of the trenches in WW1 freely made historical and mythological references intended for their readers that would miss most modern audiences who aren’t immersed in the Classics as a keystone of their society’s culture.
Lemmy calls out colonialism regularly, but do the Roman’s get a pass?
It’s literally ancient history.
