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You know, Persia wasn't quite as bad as we've often been led to believe, but it absolutely would have been tyrannical by the standards of the Greeks. A distant King lording it over the known world is completely alien to the poleis focused Hellenes. The Romans only got away with it because they...

Absolutely. To my mind It’s somewhat like MLK and Nelson Mandela. Good grief I don’t agree with even half of their beliefs but, you know, I think they had a point about “maybe treating someone as a second class citizen on account of their skin colour is a bit pants.” Wisdom should not be...

The Roman Empire was closer to "bi-cultural" than anything else. Roman citizens in the provinces never quite forgot the people they came from and their ways (as evidenced by the empire's embracing of foreign gods), but considered themselves Roman first and foremost. Now put your knee jerk...

"Roman" became the most successful imperial identity in history. To the point where, during the First World War, when some allied troops landed on a quiet Greek island, the people they encountered identified themselves as "rhomaion" even so very long after the Imperium fell.

From the borders of Scotland to the sands of Arabia, there were those who called themselves Roman. Especially after Caracalla'a reforms, that sounds multi-ethnic to me. Although that did come with the condition of the abject supremacy of the Emperor and Roman law, something modern progressives...

I mean multi-cultural societies often run into quite a bit of bother. But…multi-ethnic ones can achieve a surprising grandeur if properly united. MUSIC: IMAGE: (FVCKING WEEPS IN IMPERIVM FOR WHAT WAS)