Why were the Romans such massive Greekboos?

Why were the Romans such massive Greekboos?

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They had no culture of their own worth noting.

Romans were the first LARPer society.

Cause the Greeks did everything better than them

romans adopt the best institutions from other societies and add it to their own. it’s why they were so successful, peoples who got cucks by them hate this fact

Uhh, because they were trojans?
Seriously though, its more likely that Hellenic culture was just hegemonic and came to be an accepted part of what it meant to be a civilised person in the Mediterranean.
Identity on the scale of Rome has to be constructed, the fact that the republic was both a product of the Hellenic world and expanded in to it meant that the similarity in culture would have likely been partly natural and partly an intentional imitation.

>hegemonic

Because the Greeks had colonies all over the Mediterranean, when the illiterate Romans were still sucking on wolf-teat.

So basically, for the same reason that everywhere in Europe have been Romaboos ever since.

>Caesar went to serve his quaestorship in Spain. In the spring or early summer of 69 BC. While there, he is said to have encountered a statue of Alexander the Great, and realised with dissatisfaction that he was now at an age when Alexander had the world at his feet, while he had achieved comparatively little.

Why are Americans such massive Angloboos? Why did Americans just take their god from the English instead of inventing their own God?

All the Mediterraneans, including the Westerners adopted deities and myths from the east and re-adepted them according to their own local culture, same reason why Etruscans, Venetians, Iolei and Veneti LARPed as Trojans

Wrong. Romans LARPed as Etruscans, while the Gr**ks were seen as disgusting fags. Most sexual slaves in Rome were G*Rman or Gr**k.

T.El Mutto spatial...

No, Romans got their theater tradition of comedy and tragedy from the Greeks as well as many other things, Etruscan themselves got a lot from the Greeks including their painted vases, the arch and their script

Why were the medievals such romanboos?

Why are the Americans such britaniaboos?

People draw on the past for inspiration, wisdom, and legitimacy.

Greek theology with roman characteristics

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Romans at their core were barbarians who happened to excelled at warfare and engineering, but had nothing else going for them. The conquest of the European world was as much a raid for resources and slaves as much as it was a raid for culture

They saw old Greek as superior but current greek like shit. Pretty much like we se Romans as superior but current italians as shit

when will you faggots learn that romans and greeks were almost the same people? romans were allowed to participate in greek sport games. they are descendants of trojans and had always had the same gods.

romans are also mixed with various italic tribes.

Greeks had many colonies in Italy before and during the formation of Rome. However, they did not outright steal Greek gods. Jupiter was a local god, and when Romans came more into contact with Greeks, they said hey this Zeus guy sounds kind of like Jupiter, they must be the same so let's incorporate the Greek stories about him!

Fuck you that's retarded

pagans gotta do what pagans gotta do

>going against historical facts
>not knowing that most roman families were of sabine, samnite, etc.descend

Or you could just prove me wrong

>tfw Jupiter literally just means Father Zeus

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Very poor bait

Go back to your Polish containment threads on /pol/

Zeus comes from Dyeus Phter anyway, same a Jupiter.

Greeks were Minoanboos to begin with.

>M.L .West
>/pol/
nigga u dum

Its not bait if i am wrong tell me

I guess America is Rome after all.

Still counts as Greek

Because, being Indo-European, they were brother culture and had very, very similar gods and similarly structured societies. When Greek culture made advancements, Romans had every ability and incentive to follow.
Same with Celts when they met Rome.

Except that Greeks found parallels even with people like Phoenicians who had a completely different language, this muh indoeuropean wuz all the same narrative is pure retardation put forward by Eastern Europeans to feel relevant.
Yes there were some common origins for some of the names of the deities, yes a few legends were very loosely similar, but many others weren't and for instance the Greeks shared more myths and legends with the Phoenicians than with Nordics

It's just plain wrong. I don't even know where to begin, Greek and Latin diverged like 1500 years before Rome was founded if not more, they were different cultures, different people.

Pathetic.

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>admiring greek art and knowledge mean romans had no culture

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>No, Romans got their theater tradition of comedy and tragedy from the Greeks

Romans scorned theatre and plays and prefered sports

Romans were basically the people who watch Wrestling and Nascar compared Greeks being Hollywood and Broadway

The idea of Hellenic polytheism, like in most cases, meant that all and every god in the world was real and that in most cases the gods of the cultures around them were probably the same. This is called Hellenic (also Roman) interpretation, and because of the Greek colonies on the Italian peninsula the Romans simply got the characteristic and formality (?) of the Hellenic gods.

They already had Jupiter and the others, they were simply equated to the Greek gods. Not with every one, and this is something very important. While the Greeks identified Jupiter as Zeus or Neptune with Poseidon, which was accepted by the Romans, the Romans rejected the interpretation of their god Sol as Apollo. Sol was very important for them so they kept him, but they also acquired Apollo from the Greeks. Most regions back then didn't have a "rule book" tho, so even in times of the Republic the some were of the opinion that Apollo and Sol were the same and not different, something similar happened with the Egyptian goddess Isis, the Greeks identified her simply as Aphrodite, while for the Romans she was a completely unique goddess and simply adopted her. Another example being how Mars was a very important deity for the Romans but Ares was hated by all the other gods according to the Greeks.

Other similar cases are the Roman and Greeks identifying Odin/Wotan with both Zeus/Jupiter (ruler of the gods) and Hermes/Mercury (hat, staff, traveller, trickster). Whenever dealing with other cultures and their gods, the Romans and Greeks also used to write down the name of Hellenic gods they thought they were dealing with, thats why when you read the description of Germanic or Celtic places they wrote that "they praise Diana here" or "Hercules was around here".

Both Romans and Greeks also had temples and shrines dedicated to the "unknown gods" because they were sure there were gods they didn't knew and they wanted to cover their bases.

Romans were heavily influenced by Etruscans, who themselves were influenced by the the Greeks.