Roman and Western Society: The Satrycon

It is very attractive to think what kind of behavior is the appropriate similarity and is considered to be "deprivation" of ancient Roman society and Western society today. When reading Satrycon, it is clear that the ideology of polite behavior in our society remains the same in many respects. Trimalchio, the main character of Satrycon, and our ancient "great Gatsby" presented satirical and inconsistent behavior in the values ​​of ancient Roman society. The customer was completely defeated.

The most important part of our relationship with the ancient Greek civilization is how to trace Western society until ancient Greece. Western society began in the UK and again occupied by the Romans, but the Romans were similar in many ways to the Greeks. This chain is very important for many historical conflicts, especially Greek victory in the Persian War. And it may have quite different impact on the development of the event. As we all know, democracy began with ancient Athens. However, democracy in ancient Athens, unlike modern democracy, was an example of direct democracy. Cleisthenes introduced a series of political reforms he called Demokratia. Other Greek polarities will adopt this Athenian democracy

As discipline, the political philosophy of the West originated from the ancient Greek society, and the city state was experimenting with various forms of political organization including monarchy, tyranny, aristocracy, oligopolisticism, democracy. One of the first and most important classics of political philosophy is Republic of Plato, followed by Aristotle's politics. Both were born in the context of Athens democracy. Roman political philosophy was influenced by Greek thinkers, especially stoicism, combined with Roman Republican tradition, Roman politician Cicero's political philosophy and later thinkers like Marcus Orillius. this is true.

Therefore Western civilization is a combination of Judaism - Christianity, Greek and Roman values. Greeks and Romans established the aesthetics of Western art, but most images of the West are based on Judaism and Christianity. Greeks and Romans established the foundation of Western philosophy, but it was maintained through the moral aspect of the Jewish - Christian. The history of the West is often regarded as a European history, but there are problems as we ignore the simple fact that Europe has never existed isolated. In ancient times the Greeks continued talking to Egyptians, Persians, Mesopotamians and others. The Romans were also affected by people in North Africa and West Asia (also known as the Middle East), and the Europeans were also affected centuries later. In particular, Muslims will continue to play an important role in European knowledge, art and political history for thousands of years.