This week on the blog! We start a look at the contrast between how the Romans are represented in media and who the Romans actually were, in identity and culture. We start by asking, "Was Rome ever a homogeneous community, or was it always diverse?"https://acoup.blog/2021/06/11/collections-the-queens-latin-or-who-were-the-romans-part-i-beginnings-and-legends/ …
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What about synthesis? If Rome became a powerful city-state through a synthesis of many strands of culture into a powerful, cohesive, unified cultural package
We're going to get to that, especially when we talk about the auxilia and the Greeks. But broadly, yes.
