This week on the blog, we finish our five-part look at diversity in the Roman Empire by tackling the question 'did diversity/multiculturalism cause the fall of Rome?' It didn't...but intolerance might have (in part).https://acoup.blog/2021/07/30/collections-the-queens-latin-or-who-were-the-romans-part-v-saving-and-losing-an-empire/ …
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But it is the movie-makers who are the revisionists! I can't stress enough, the evidence is not ambiguous or uncertain here. Rome was a diverse, Mediterranean polity from its foundation to its collapse in the West.
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That Rome - the real Rome that actually existed in antiquity, the one that exists in our literary sources, in the archaeological record, in the preserved artwork...that Rome was *always* diverse.
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the legions took all soldiers willing to commit, ethnicity was an issue but it was a diverse commitment, that is one of the reasons for its success
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My family lived in th Mission a short time, 35 years, raised a kid, gave me a place to hang when I was in town from the North Bay. They have gone to NOLA now, new horizons,, peace be with you, I reside.
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