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Considering their reverence for oratory and public speaking, I wonder what they'd make of highly praised modern speakers and the speeches they delivered? Even leaving aside what'd probably be various different standards as to what a charismatic speechmaker sounds like or how a well put-together...

Maybe this is an odd question, but I wonder what they'd think of modern political science and the hodgepodge of new and eccentric ideologies that have arisen since their time? We talked about obvious ones like communism and fascism (but not necessarily their various offshoots), though I believe...

Even though they're not always historically accurate, I wonder what they'd make of contemporary works made in their likeness? This made-up anthem for the Roman Empire is a more convenient example of what I mean. National Anthem of Roman Empire (Instrumental)

Though we've successfully reconstructed how to speak ancient Latin and Greek, I wonder how Greco-Romans would actually sound when speaking in practice? While I'm sure we could communicate once we got past matters of minutely unclear pronunciation, I'm nonetheless curious to speculate on how they...

As it relates to technological advancements, one thing they're bound to notice about us is how fast technology tends to advance as of the last three-hundred or so years. What might they make of game-changers like the Industrial Revolution, for example? We've certainly had the luxury of time to...

Another aspect of this scenario that's been on my mind is how the Greeks and Romans might learn today's languages? I'm sure it's possible for their more linguistically inclined constituents to learn in principle, though the fact that they have no scholars or universities who know about them from...

[Shrugs shoulders] Meh. I wondered if someone might say that, sooner or later. Something that might reduce the burden of teaching them is that the average Greek or Roman on the street doesn't have to comprehend everything leading up to the present, merely that doing what the powerful people with...

...Where are you going with this, if I might ask?

I don't know as much about Mussolini, but National Socialism was at least a much different spin than the revolutionary, "workers of the world unite!" socialism that springs to mind first. Being a beast of "blood and soil" and corporatist economics tends to do that. Having said that, even if they...

As it applies to how our era is one of constant (and often destabilizing) change, what might the Greeks and Romans make of radical ideologies that gained traction in the twentieth century, like communism and fascism? While I've little doubt that pro-redistribution movements are as old as...

Now here's an interesting video on what six titans of Roman history would make of our world. How The Romans Would See Us Today

That's true. As for paper money, I suppose that'd segway into how the people who carry it live comfortable-enough lifestyles to the point of not needing something more durable and long-lasting to trade instead. Since the islands are in the Ionian Sea between modern-day Italy and Greece, I...

Perhaps. But then there's actually collecting that knowledge for ourselves, which may be suspect due to a) their likely unwillingness to work with strange "modern" peoples who're demanding that they end "key institutions" like slavery and casual misogyny and b) the various biases that shape...

I suppose when we tell them about how it's to prevent girls who are too young and inexperienced from being taken advantage of by older people, they won't understand why we dignify them with that, either? Forgetting the recipes for Greek fire and Damascus steel seem like much more reasonable...

With its rise around the Mediterranean Sea giving way to a rich and centuries-long legacy that remains with us to this day, the Greco-Roman world stood tall as a bastion of science, art, law, and high culture until its tragic decline following the sacking of Rome in 410 A.D. But for all the...