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by fngjdflmdflg 909 days ago
It's not based just on statues and emperors, though that shouldn't be ignored. The Roman's never adopted the Greek gymnasium, instead opting to have enslaved Greek philosophers tutor them at home[0] so that they could feel cultured. None of it was real and after a thousand years of LARPing as Greeks the Romans made zero contributions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_ancient_Rome