Why do we have so much info on Romans and Greeks in contrast to other civilizations in antiquity? I want to read about other ancient cultures.
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Why do we have so much info on Romans and Greeks in contrast to other civilizations in antiquity? I want to read about other ancient cultures.
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we don't have many information on romans or greeks.
only like 5 documents still exist from roman era.
somehow these scarce materials all could record beliefs, battles and language lf Ancient Romans so much that scholarly consensus doesnt even debate about it.
There’s a shit ton of debate for non morons
if you actually read these sources you'd know that most of them are pretty fricking general and all the stuff you know about rome is literally from those books.
we have more about greece than rome and we don't know jack shit about anything outside of athens politically and everything these people regarded as not worth explaining or wrote down in works nobody cared to preserve, such as, again, how they lived their daily live, family structures trivial shit which we take for granted, which they took for granted, in which we however differ to the greeks (or romans) significantly.
archaeologists and historians (and good academics in general) are really good at reconstructing and guessing to make theories through comparative and predictive studies.
False We have many dozens of historic and literary texts from the Roman era and around 300,000 epigraphic ones
Because romans decided to burn the accounts from everyone else
>Because romans decided to burn the accounts from everyone else
NOOOOO muh non-existent accounts from Germanic tribe named "Woodgnawerdaughters"
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Take your meds im talking about egyptians
You could have said "Romans destroyed Egyptian documents" instead of "Romans destroyed all of documents"
Why would you asssume i was talking about germanoids? literally rent free it is implied im talking about egypt and carthage
>bitching about lack of Punic sites when they lay claim to one of the most famous generals in the history of warfare
Hannibal is only known through Roman accounts. We have no real records from the Punes themselves.
>Why would you asssume i was talking about germanoids
because... they fought with Romans?
>because... they fought with Romans?
And they won, so stay fricking mad.
Never been to a museum with an Egyptian section?
you've been fed a bunch of unsourced fiction on the past based on the imagination of some people and then you think you KNOW that time period based on Hollywood or some other fiction writers imagination.
0 first hand writing survives from that time period.
That's not true, There are more than 69,000 papyrus documents indexed in museums dating to before 300 AD. Pic related is a tax receipt from 134 AD.
Oops - pic related
There are letters from soldiers stationed in hadrians wall. There’s loads of primary Roman documentation
Mesopotamians have a lot of information about themselves due to them writing on clay tablets and metal (I think) pillars
>lot of information
Lol
Am I wrong?
no youre not. this guy is just a weirdo. Well hes half right, we have a ton of the clay tablets but so many have yet to be translated cause theres just so many and a lot of them are just like records of grain and animals. its just a lot to sift through
Relative to what OPs talking about then not a lot at all
Literacy. Conservative estimates put the literacy rate of the Roman Empire to be 1 in 20. At that rate a city of 50,000 would have 2500 literate men. From the collapse onward it was the responsibility of Christian monks to maintain these histories.
China has a frickton, and I mean a real frickton, of old records, but hardly any has been translated.
This is a letter a guy called Marsisouchos wrote in 3 AD. He's complaining to a government official that he inherited some land, but then some c**t called Soterichos sent the boys round to rough him up, stole his cloak, and interrupted his planting, all on some false pretext.
Beautiful.
Post more or post source bro.
This letter dates to the late first century, and is clearly about some shady business. Longus is writing to Julius about 'thirty items'. He says 'thirty items' a few times without specifying what they are. He does say that his dad has written him five letters about them already and is getting really pissed off. He's begging Julius to let him know the situation with the thirty items "only don't let anyone find out what you're doing".
This is just a sales contract for a donkey. Going rate for a donkey in late second century Egypt was about 230 drachmae, apparently.
Too bad homosexual. They were the greatest peoples of their time, so they're what you're stuck with.