Western Civilization I / Unit 6 WC1 0513 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Romanitas and What Rome Took From Greece
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The idea
Romans saw themselves as strong and honest and Greeks as brilliant but shifty, yet imported Greek art, slave-tutors, Stoicism and above all rhetoric. Romanitas, the anchor's term, meant civilized, a speaker, a fighter, self-sacrificing, working within the structure.
In practice
Realistic portraits, warts and all, over Greek idealization.
Where people slip
Dictators stepped down until the first century B.C.E.; the anchor's C.E. is a slip.
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