My Father was born just outside of Rome!! So I am half Roman, and half Baresi, all Italian!! I love Italy so much, and my heritage is breathtaking!! fino alla fine!
Magnus Christianssen I think he meant Barese, from Bari (a city of southern Italy) known as Βαριον/Barion by the ancient Greeks and Barium by the Romans
The culture isn't gone, the Roman Empire may be gone, but the western world is still very much Roman. They commanded nearly the entirety of Europe for a very long time, that sort of long-term ingraining doesn't just disappear. It's all around us, nearly every aspect of modern culture is born from or influenced by the Romans. The reason they're great is because they have lasted in spirit so much longer than most other cultures. They've left a mark on humanity that will likely never disappear.
More than just the western world. The Greco-Roman cultural footprint is still strong in the Middle East /North Africa and in Islamic culture thanks to the preservation and continued innovation by Arabs and Muslims in the old Eastern Empire. Even in Slavic cultures and societies today, there are still visible links back to the Roman world.
Glad to see that my great love for Roma is shared by many others. I'm an American. I've never even been to Italy, but my love for the great Roman Empire is as real and as true as if I lived there my whole life, as if the blood of the great Caesar himself coursed through my very body.
Why would you support Caesar? He ruined Rome! As of me, the blood of Brutus, the man who expelled the Tarquins and Kings and made the glorious Republic, runs through my veins.
Will Sambo, I probably know more Latin than you do. I'm also more likely to be related to Romans than you. You see, modern day Italians are mostly immigrants who have no or near no Roman ties. Mostly ties to the foreigners who came in to fill the power vacuum left by the Romans.
Camgoalie's comment is bullshit though. The Latin population mixed with the invading Germans, they weren't annihilated. The reason Italians nowadays speak Italian and not a Germanic language is that there were way more Latins in Italia than Germans. The Roman high society though either left to the Eastern part of the Empire or they were replaced by Germans after some time. Fun fact: the Roman senate still rules more than 60 years after the death of the last Western Emperor, it was even aknowleged by the German de facto rulers of Italy at the time as their de jure ruler (since they understood themselves as Roman rexes (rexii?), not as barbarian invaders).
"Vlach is ultimately of Germanic origin, from the word Walha, "foreigner", "stranger", a name used by ancient Germanic peoples to refer to Romance-speaking and (Romanized) Celtic neighbours. In turn, Walha may have been derived from the name of a Celtic tribe which was known to the Romans as Volcae in the writings of Julius Caesar to the Greeks as Ouólkai in texts by Strabo and Ptolemy.the term Vlach shares its history with several European ethnic names, including the Welsh and Walloons." -Wiki
How were these "reconstructed" has any equivalent of a music sheet survied from the period. Being portuguese I would say that the first music reminds me of some traditional music from northern portugal and the second trovadoresc music from galician-portuguese cantigas de amigo
Long live the Julian-Claudius Dynasty ^^. They were all so unique and interesting. I can imagine Nero playing this as his city burned with Tiberius working to put up the fire, Augustus helping the citizens, Claudius panicking but putting out the fire in the mean time, and Caligula just screaming MY STATUES!
Come on, guys. Romans were great, but they were more like nazis than you think. They killed millions of people, they destroyed whole nations, broke lives, enslaved people. I still admire them, but really, you don't want new roman empire.
***** It's really good and beautiful, and quite plausible. But would you like to be conquered by romans? I wouldn't. Roads, aqueducts, laws. That's nice but...
***** Of course, there were lots of advantages of roman rule. Roman contribution to civilization is invaluable. And conquered cultures hadn't disappeared, there were intresting mixtures like gallo-roman or daco-roman cultures. But I have never heard about romanized carthaginians, have you? I just wanted to calm down these guys, who invoke romans so carelessly. Also, romans had underwear unlike scots with their skir... kilts.
It didn't die, it still survives today. It just evolved in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian and the other Romance languages and cultures. And the Roman Empire evolved into the Catholic Church as technically the Roman Empire did not end, it is still alive today as the Catholic Church. The Vatican City is a Roman State. And most of Europe is based on the foundations of the Romans, even there Latin Alphabet is used in nearly every European based language.
One of the most overlooked things on the academic level is that people from various regions when documenting tribes sometimes refer to them by various names or several names & nicknames, nothing was fixed. Every region documented other tribes or cultures with their own terminology, that later when looked at was assumed were all different people. Just like if someone referred to person today by their town, county, state or country... all would be correct. These details have confused historians.
History of the Romanian People by Andrei Otetea is a good start for truly understanding history there. The Vlachs, Volcae [Celtic tribe], Welsh & Wallachs were one & the same. The Germanic tribes named are some of the earliest Europeans from above the Black Sea. Latin language evolved from Greek & ancient Phoenician migratory activity below the Black sea. Europe's first mixing was of these peoples. Slavonic migration was 2nd northern waves then followed by Asiatics, Indians & Pakistanis.
This is very melodic. In what settings might this music have been performed? Also, where is there an archive of such music or other audio vestigaes of Roman culture? Thank you for performing a useful service and adding beauty from the roman civilzation to our own.
Roman soldiers remained in Dacia after conquering it & established much Roman basic foundation known today. There are many early surviving traditions & understanding from there as well as early folk religious & cultural influence. Romanian spoken in countries surrounding it speak the actual earliest form in the villages. Romanian language officially imported many French words & diction by government decree because of ancient connections & to minimalize influence from surrounding cultures.
@ScipioAfricanusI There is not any written roman music! the archeologists rebuilt the instrument and their sounds starting from frescoes.. so the music you are listening to is just "rebuilt"
Don't forget they formulated the basic methodology of implementing government, Governmental structure, societal standards, military structure, and countless innovations and engineering that we all still use today!
Yes thats my word, Music in Balkan is like in west europe 700 years ago, or even from Roman empire time. I also have one song from d. cantemir on my mobile phone.
@ScipioAfricanusI Music archive? I could PM you a download link with all of my ancient music on Dropbox that I have uploaded... Plenty of people ask for that, so I posted quite a while ago. Setting? Most music was in the Pugnate album was performed in either private parties or in various stages of the Games. This one would fit into the former category.
At the academic level of linguistics it is taught that Romanian has the highest connection with Albanian language. My Albanian friend & I have discussed this many times as well. History can be a complex thing, especially when people generalize, but most westerners do not understand Eastern European history & it's stages & waves & what they meant or connected to. Also the commercial historical ideas in many cases are not promoted correctly or in the proper context of history & its significance.
They were, but then in following centuries, after it was lost, the population intermingled with Germanic tribesmen, Slavs, and others. The Slavic influence is especially pronounced. It's much like the English, originally Germanic, can say they are part Roman, part Germanic, and part Norman French, or the Spanish or Italians can say they are part Roman and part Germanic. The difference with Romanian culture is that it broke from the Roman template earlier than the other romance cultures.
The language is not "heavily influenced" by Slavonic languages. I speak both Romanian & Serbian/Stokavian & the influence is very minimal. There are also similarities with German, Hungarian & French. Every language is influenced by others because words get used from regions & cultures that have activity with others. Many peoples are treated as separate tribes when in fact they were the same & just called different names by others from other regions & times that stuck with opinionated scholars.
A lot of people are saying that Rome gave birth to the western world,, but I have a question. What is the western world? Some say its all the countries in the Western hemisphere, some say its the Americas + Europe, some say its Europe + Former British Colonies, and some say its just Western Europe. Which is it?
My anaconda don't, my anaconda don't My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hun Oh my gosh, look at her butt Oh my gosh, look at her butt Oh my gosh, look at her butt (Look at her butt) Look at, look at, look at Look, at her butt
hail rome for it's glory, for no civilzation after rome, succed to the glory that rome has once achived, the one true civilization that deserved to exhist and keep there religon
(Continuing from below): Of course, that doesn't mean that Greeks & Romans didn't have spirituality and mystery cults. It means that they learned to compartmentalize their thinking: Thales, Aristotle, and Hippocrates used reason only. You won't find that in any other civilization. (Not until they came into contact with the West and westernized their schools.) The Romans hellenized themselves (adopted Greek rational thinking) around the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.
Romanians were & are Vlachs. Also the letters B & V were & are interchangeable regionally, VL & BL which form the words Bel, Bella, & Balkan which the region is known from is from these roots & people. Through ancient Turkey & Phrygia the Bel's were "whites" who spoke the earliest form of the language. Cavali-Sforza has the Vlachs as the original Europeans. Any citizen of the Roman Empire was "Romanian" so that word has a vast meaning. "Romanity" survived all over Europe.
They blame Jews for creating Christianity, Which Jews abhor.(Christianity is one of the major catalysts for anti-semitism) And then Blame Christianity for Rome's fall. Logic=none
The trend with some historians based on limited information has been to focus on many separatist ideas or simply don't understand things & what they mean, as well as political propaganda that has influenced history. Every culture you can see how they some academics want to make their culture unique & somehow. So it all depends on which side of the fence & what time period in history people start. Do you speak Romanian or any Slavonic language? Or own any Romanian or Slavonic dictionaries?
Smoothbluehero asked an intelligent question: what is it meant by the expression "the western world?" Patres818 blabbers on about mystery cults and "spirituality" being the essence of western civilization. That doesn't distinguish it from Ancient Egypt, Babylon, India, or any other civilization you can think of, does it? The distinguishing feature is that ancient Greek philosophers cleanly separated rational thought from mythic thinking, developing rational philosophy & the scientific method.
I see. I suppose you were, in fact, right, then. The Slavic influx would certainly explain the Slavic sound to their very Latin based language. Cheers.
Synaulia performs reconstructions of Roman music, of which we have enough scraps lying around which survived "as it is", or were recycled later on by Mediaeval Europe. If it sounds like something from a movie it is only because they have ACTUALLY gone out to advise composers how to compose THEMATICALLY CORRECT music. Unsurprisingly,some of their most well-known projects were the series Rome and the movie Gladiator.
There were parallel cultural things through out Europe, just like today there are many influences from & similarities with food or music in eastern Europe & Eurasia. Caucasians migrated in waves above & below the Black sea in stages many were of the same genetic stock, but later scholars name them something & then it's viewed as a separate race or culture. Dacia/Deutch/Dutch is one & the same thing, regardless how the languages regionally evolved & influenced by others.
For Latin letters to evolve & be used from Greek letters there had to be a connection & understanding of the language, just like for Greek letters evolved from Phoenician letters there had to be contact & understanding of it's usage. People cannot adapt a language from a region, race or culture that did not intertwine or understand the language at one point & in many cases rooted in that culture. What about Magna Graecia & Italy what language did they speak? YOUR ENTIRE POINT IS INCORRECT.
Kicking ass for 6000 years? You're not including vacations in that calculation are you? Vacations to sunny Egypt...Babylon...Poland...with a brief layover in friendly Germany.
well according to the video description (which doesn't exactly answer your question,) I think the group that performs this makes music based on traditional roman music, but I don't think this was an actual song that was written down during the time.
It's only the empires or dynasties going. The culture will live on, it will be lived by the people of the following empires. Of course it will be modified... But it won't die ;)
The answer gunzt3rkenfu92 provided is a bit unsatisfactory. (Greece is not "Western Europe".) The birthplace of Western Civilization is ancient Greece. It was transmitted to Western Europe via Rome. Recovered in the Rennaissance, it was spread to the rest of the world by western European imperialism. Most fundamentally, Western Civ is characterized by a rigorously rational approach to knowledge. Greece is the birthplace of rational philosophy and a rational, theoretical approach to science.
+Ali Foreman Let's not forget the strong Germanic sense of individual freedom, which greatly contributed to creating the modern European way of thinking.
i agree, the Roman empire was an Atheistic philosophy dressed as Polyteisthic Pagan culture. The real Culture of the Roman Empire was based on the IMPERIAL CULT, the figure of Caesar was worshiped like a Divine God, so no more like the old reigns before the romans,but a new thing, a man proclaimed God by the Peoples, the Bible on Maccabees about ANthiocus Epihane IV tell us that he learned this "unknow God" when he was in Rome. Maybe is not a case that the Messiah was in the world in this moment
Sounds like the Dark and Darker theme but antiquity version. I love it.
My Father was born just outside of Rome!! So I am half Roman, and half Baresi, all Italian!! I love Italy so much, and my heritage is breathtaking!! fino alla fine!
Baresi? Can you go into detail on that? Is that an ancient Italian tribe?
Magnus Christianssen
I think he meant Barese, from Bari (a city of southern Italy) known as Βαριον/Barion by the ancient Greeks and Barium by the Romans
D'accordo, signore. La cultura Italiana....e veramente tutta la mediterranea.....e la piu migliore nel mondo.
I was born just outside the border of the USA so I am half American!
@@iberius9937 said the guy who wasn’t quite sure whether he was Greek or Spanish if the name is anything to go by
This one (the first track) sounds so much more structured in terms of melody than the other ones you've shared.
Beautiful memories do i have in this Instrumental. Greetings from a Greek my Roman friends.
The culture isn't gone, the Roman Empire may be gone, but the western world is still very much Roman. They commanded nearly the entirety of Europe for a very long time, that sort of long-term ingraining doesn't just disappear. It's all around us, nearly every aspect of modern culture is born from or influenced by the Romans. The reason they're great is because they have lasted in spirit so much longer than most other cultures. They've left a mark on humanity that will likely never disappear.
No more
Well, Roman legacy remains today in Arts and mostly in public buildings, and in basement of Western Laws, too...but disgracefully not in music, ...
More than just the western world. The Greco-Roman cultural footprint is still strong in the Middle East /North Africa and in Islamic culture thanks to the preservation and continued innovation by Arabs and Muslims in the old Eastern Empire. Even in Slavic cultures and societies today, there are still visible links back to the Roman world.
Such a dumb comentarie
Wow. The hymn to Diana was exceptionally impressive.
Mihi placet haec cantio. Est iucunda gratias
Glad to see that my great love for Roma is shared by many others. I'm an American. I've never even been to Italy, but my love for the great Roman Empire is as real and as true as if I lived there my whole life, as if the blood of the great Caesar himself coursed through my very body.
Why would you support Caesar? He ruined Rome! As of me, the blood of Brutus, the man who expelled the Tarquins and Kings and made the glorious Republic, runs through my veins.
I'm Italian and I feel Roman. My dream is that many social aspects of the Ancient Rome will return. I hope someday I'll be able to speak Latin.
Will Sambo, I probably know more Latin than you do. I'm also more likely to be related to Romans than you. You see, modern day Italians are mostly immigrants who have no or near no Roman ties. Mostly ties to the foreigners who came in to fill the power vacuum left by the Romans.
Giovanni Guerra Bad news for you, but actually you are German.
Camgoalie's comment is bullshit though. The Latin population mixed with the invading Germans, they weren't annihilated. The reason Italians nowadays speak Italian and not a Germanic language is that there were way more Latins in Italia than Germans. The Roman high society though either left to the Eastern part of the Empire or they were replaced by Germans after some time. Fun fact: the Roman senate still rules more than 60 years after the death of the last Western Emperor, it was even aknowleged by the German de facto rulers of Italy at the time as their de jure ruler (since they understood themselves as Roman rexes (rexii?), not as barbarian invaders).
great interpretation of what ancient roman music was like
"Vlach is ultimately of Germanic origin, from the word Walha, "foreigner", "stranger", a name used by ancient Germanic peoples to refer to Romance-speaking and (Romanized) Celtic neighbours. In turn, Walha may have been derived from the name of a Celtic tribe which was known to the Romans as Volcae in the writings of Julius Caesar to the Greeks as Ouólkai in texts by Strabo and Ptolemy.the term Vlach shares its history with several European ethnic names, including the Welsh and Walloons." -Wiki
How were these "reconstructed" has any equivalent of a music sheet survied from the period.
Being portuguese I would say that the first music reminds me of some traditional music from northern portugal and the second trovadoresc music from galician-portuguese cantigas de amigo
Very telling.
This is so incredibly beautiful. Love it.
This is beautiful.
Long live the Julian-Claudius Dynasty ^^. They were all so unique and interesting. I can imagine Nero playing this as his city burned with Tiberius working to put up the fire, Augustus helping the citizens, Claudius panicking but putting out the fire in the mean time, and Caligula just screaming MY STATUES!
*the best architecture begins to burn*
Caligula: My beautiful statues!
The people: Really?
May Senatus Populusque Romanus live on!
May the Roman Empire rise again and last thousands of years, Senatus Populus Quo Romanus.
Come on, guys. Romans were great, but they were more like nazis than you think. They killed millions of people, they destroyed whole nations, broke lives, enslaved people. I still admire them, but really, you don't want new roman empire.
***** It's really good and beautiful, and quite plausible. But would you like to be conquered by romans? I wouldn't. Roads, aqueducts, laws. That's nice but...
***** Of course, there were lots of advantages of roman rule. Roman contribution to civilization is invaluable. And conquered cultures hadn't disappeared, there were intresting mixtures like gallo-roman or daco-roman cultures. But I have never heard about romanized carthaginians, have you? I just wanted to calm down these guys, who invoke romans so carelessly. Also, romans had underwear unlike scots with their skir... kilts.
***** Thanks, man. Take care!
AgeofGuns Senatus Populusque Romanus* what you wrote means "The Senate who Roman People."
Thanks for the wonderful music.
I think I'm in love.
love it! thanks for uploading!
I went to Rome Depot the other day and got me a new amphora for 20 quinarius.
eskimospy77 heh rome depot
*intense Roman Forum music plays*
roman culture isn't gone it can still be seen across Europe and the rest of the world
sempre bellissima!
Everybody is talking about Pugnate III but this is being slept on
Thank you!
Showed this to my friend Marcelo
Now he is *Marcellvs*
It didn't die, it still survives today.
It just evolved in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian and the other Romance languages and cultures.
And the Roman Empire evolved into the Catholic Church as technically the Roman Empire did not end, it is still alive today as the Catholic Church.
The Vatican City is a Roman State.
And most of Europe is based on the foundations of the Romans, even there Latin Alphabet is used in nearly every European based language.
Don't forget postal delivery for all their citizens. And a census. Both courtesy of Augustus.
One of the most overlooked things on the academic level is that people from various regions when documenting tribes sometimes refer to them by various names or several names & nicknames, nothing was fixed. Every region documented other tribes or cultures with their own terminology, that later when looked at was assumed were all different people. Just like if someone referred to person today by their town, county, state or country... all would be correct. These details have confused historians.
Probably one of the best things I have ever read on the internet.
awesome! love it!
History of the Romanian People by Andrei Otetea is a good start for truly understanding history there. The Vlachs, Volcae [Celtic tribe], Welsh & Wallachs were one & the same. The Germanic tribes named are some of the earliest Europeans from above the Black Sea. Latin language evolved from Greek & ancient Phoenician migratory activity below the Black sea. Europe's first mixing was of these peoples. Slavonic migration was 2nd northern waves then followed by Asiatics, Indians & Pakistanis.
LOVE IT!
You should ;)
This is very melodic. In what settings might this music have been performed? Also, where is there an archive of such music or other audio vestigaes of Roman culture?
Thank you for performing a useful service and adding beauty from the roman civilzation to our own.
There's this thing called a sense of humor. It predates Rome. If you study your history you may learn to recognize it when you see it.
The lyrics to the "Hymnus Dianae" are Catullus 34 (just google it)
ottimo
Roman soldiers remained in Dacia after conquering it & established much Roman basic foundation known today. There are many early surviving traditions & understanding from there as well as early folk religious & cultural influence. Romanian spoken in countries surrounding it speak the actual earliest form in the villages. Romanian language officially imported many French words & diction by government decree because of ancient connections & to minimalize influence from surrounding cultures.
@ScipioAfricanusI
There is not any written roman music! the archeologists rebuilt the instrument and their sounds starting from frescoes.. so the music you are listening to is just "rebuilt"
Don't forget they formulated the basic methodology of implementing government, Governmental structure, societal standards, military structure, and countless innovations and engineering that we all still use today!
Do you have the "lyrics" for "Hymnus Dianae" by any chance?
What year was this recorded? 20 a.c.?
A book on history...Rome WAS history for about 1,000 years.
Yes thats my word, Music in Balkan is like in west europe 700 years ago, or even from Roman empire time. I also have one song from d. cantemir on my mobile phone.
@ScipioAfricanusI
Music archive? I could PM you a download link with all of my ancient music on Dropbox that I have uploaded... Plenty of people ask for that, so I posted quite a while ago.
Setting? Most music was in the Pugnate album was performed in either private parties or in various stages of the Games. This one would fit into the former category.
At the academic level of linguistics it is taught that Romanian has the highest connection with Albanian language. My Albanian friend & I have discussed this many times as well. History can be a complex thing, especially when people generalize, but most westerners do not understand Eastern European history & it's stages & waves & what they meant or connected to. Also the commercial historical ideas in many cases are not promoted correctly or in the proper context of history & its significance.
How do we know that the music is truly Roman? Not being a troll asking for the song sheet in a museum wasn’t aware ancient music existed
Tu ru ru rururu turururutururu :D
I'd love to know the instrumentation in these. THis sounds like mandolin.
this music is so good to play rome 2 total war jejej
@generalpatton3 Could you send me the link to the ancient music too? =)
that last song sounded a bit like the Prophet song by Regina
I can see Spartacus comming in the Colosseum arena.
It sounds like melodic death metal.
They were, but then in following centuries, after it was lost, the population intermingled with Germanic tribesmen, Slavs, and others. The Slavic influence is especially pronounced.
It's much like the English, originally Germanic, can say they are part Roman, part Germanic, and part Norman French, or the Spanish or Italians can say they are part Roman and part Germanic. The difference with Romanian culture is that it broke from the Roman template earlier than the other romance cultures.
How do I find it in iTunes because I really would to buy the whole album
The language is not "heavily influenced" by Slavonic languages. I speak both Romanian & Serbian/Stokavian & the influence is very minimal. There are also similarities with German, Hungarian & French. Every language is influenced by others because words get used from regions & cultures that have activity with others. Many peoples are treated as separate tribes when in fact they were the same & just called different names by others from other regions & times that stuck with opinionated scholars.
A lot of people are saying that Rome gave birth to the western world,, but I have a question. What is the western world? Some say its all the countries in the Western hemisphere, some say its the Americas + Europe, some say its Europe + Former British Colonies, and some say its just Western Europe. Which is it?
Would you kindly PM me the download link as well? Thank you.
Much better than the cover version by Puellilae Seditio, released in 32 a.c. ;)
Sorry. does anyone have the lyrics of this song?
My anaconda don't, my anaconda don't
My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns, hun
Oh my gosh, look at her butt
Oh my gosh, look at her butt
Oh my gosh, look at her butt
(Look at her butt)
Look at, look at, look at
Look, at her butt
Hello darkness my old friend...
hail rome for it's glory, for no civilzation after rome, succed to the glory that rome has once achived, the one true civilization that deserved to exhist and keep there religon
the aqueduct....roads? sanitation? public safety? education?
(Continuing from below): Of course, that doesn't mean that Greeks & Romans didn't have spirituality and mystery cults. It means that they learned to compartmentalize their thinking: Thales, Aristotle, and Hippocrates used reason only. You won't find that in any other civilization. (Not until they came into contact with the West and westernized their schools.) The Romans hellenized themselves (adopted Greek rational thinking) around the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.
Romanians were & are Vlachs. Also the letters B & V were & are interchangeable regionally, VL & BL which form the words Bel, Bella, & Balkan which the region is known from is from these roots & people. Through ancient Turkey & Phrygia the Bel's were "whites" who spoke the earliest form of the language. Cavali-Sforza has the Vlachs as the original Europeans. Any citizen of the Roman Empire was "Romanian" so that word has a vast meaning. "Romanity" survived all over Europe.
Dat beat
are there any lyrics?
Deinde, cur loqui in lingua Latina possum? Roma invicta.
cur? maybe quam ob rem? atque *lingua Latina, sine in, quia lingua est non locus, sed instrumentum, per quod actio "loqui" agitur.
A Jew once told me that Jews are a religion and also considered a type of race
Kawaii Potato Yes the religion is called Judaism and the people are known as Jews :-)
Kawaii Potato Yeah, but 'ethnic group' seems more appropriate. Every human is the same race, just different ethnic groups.
Yes..... what does this have to do with this video tho?
+Ocelotl Chimalpahin Jewish influence on the Roman Empire. Actually read the comments
They blame Jews for creating Christianity, Which Jews abhor.(Christianity is one of the major catalysts for anti-semitism)
And then Blame Christianity for Rome's fall.
Logic=none
Salutare a Dacia!
Il mio paese.
The aqueducts?
The trend with some historians based on limited information has been to focus on many separatist ideas or simply don't understand things & what they mean, as well as political propaganda that has influenced history. Every culture you can see how they some academics want to make their culture unique & somehow. So it all depends on which side of the fence & what time period in history people start. Do you speak Romanian or any Slavonic language? Or own any Romanian or Slavonic dictionaries?
Smoothbluehero asked an intelligent question: what is it meant by the expression "the western world?" Patres818 blabbers on about mystery cults and "spirituality" being the essence of western civilization. That doesn't distinguish it from Ancient Egypt, Babylon, India, or any other civilization you can think of, does it? The distinguishing feature is that ancient Greek philosophers cleanly separated rational thought from mythic thinking, developing rational philosophy & the scientific method.
lol i can't believe so many people took that seriously ;D
From which century is this from?
Authentic instruments?
The beginning sounds like the hook for a current rap song LOL
What is it?
I see. I suppose you were, in fact, right, then. The Slavic influx would certainly explain the Slavic sound to their very Latin based language.
Cheers.
@janedoe1026
may work..! :) but i don't think all the romans could stay quiet!! ahaha (I'm roman) :D
is this really music from ancient Rome, or is this just something from a movie?
Synaulia performs reconstructions of Roman music, of which we have enough scraps lying around which survived "as it is", or were recycled later on by Mediaeval Europe.
If it sounds like something from a movie it is only because they have ACTUALLY gone out to advise composers how to compose THEMATICALLY CORRECT music. Unsurprisingly,some of their most well-known projects were the series Rome and the movie Gladiator.
thanks a lot!
nostri compositio temporis neque ab movie est capti hi captus
There were parallel cultural things through out Europe, just like today there are many influences from & similarities with food or music in eastern Europe & Eurasia. Caucasians migrated in waves above & below the Black sea in stages many were of the same genetic stock, but later scholars name them something & then it's viewed as a separate race or culture. Dacia/Deutch/Dutch is one & the same thing, regardless how the languages regionally evolved & influenced by others.
latina sum ego! Roma caput mundi!!! :-)
It's ROMANI ITE DOMUM! Now write it 100 times :P
They inspired a lot of good movies and they brought us pizza! Can you think of any greater contribution then pizza and a movie?
For Latin letters to evolve & be used from Greek letters there had to be a connection & understanding of the language, just like for Greek letters evolved from Phoenician letters there had to be contact & understanding of it's usage. People cannot adapt a language from a region, race or culture that did not intertwine or understand the language at one point & in many cases rooted in that culture. What about Magna Graecia & Italy what language did they speak? YOUR ENTIRE POINT IS INCORRECT.
The Roman Empire existed until the 15.century!
Kicking ass for 6000 years? You're not including vacations in that calculation are you? Vacations to sunny Egypt...Babylon...Poland...with a brief layover in friendly Germany.
Did they compose this or is this music composed in the roman times?
well according to the video description (which doesn't exactly answer your question,) I think the group that performs this makes music based on traditional roman music, but I don't think this was an actual song that was written down during the time.
MrHestichs They use scraps from ancient song that are still in tact and use them as performance art.
It's only the empires or dynasties going. The culture will live on, it will be lived by the people of the following empires. Of course it will be modified... But it won't die ;)
people nowadays seem to be in favour of wiping the memory of Aristotle, I think they're bitter at the emergence of Ayn Rand
:)
You're quoting Monty Python, the Life of Brian!
LOL
"What's so funny about Biggus Dickus?"
The answer gunzt3rkenfu92 provided is a bit unsatisfactory. (Greece is not "Western Europe".) The birthplace of Western Civilization is ancient Greece. It was transmitted to Western Europe via Rome. Recovered in the Rennaissance, it was spread to the rest of the world by western European imperialism. Most fundamentally, Western Civ is characterized by a rigorously rational approach to knowledge. Greece is the birthplace of rational philosophy and a rational, theoretical approach to science.
Do anyone know the lyrics of the song?
Catullus 34
anyone know the lyrics ?
"The three pillars of the West : Ancient Greek culture, Roman law and Jewish -Christian religion" .
+Ali Foreman We don't have Greek culture any more, it's very hard to see an influential Philosopher nowadays or a decent democratic system
+Ali Foreman Let's not forget the strong Germanic sense of individual freedom, which greatly contributed to creating the modern European way of thinking.
so far no one asked for that
Ancient Greek Culture, Roman Law, And Greco-Roman Paganism!
The Greeks and the Romans were pagans, and many ancient greek texts were actually saved by the Arabs and went back to Europe through Al-Andalus.
What have the Romans ever done for us?
You're not taking my comment seriously are you?
What did the Romans ever do for us?
i agree, the Roman empire was an Atheistic philosophy dressed as Polyteisthic Pagan culture. The real Culture of the Roman Empire was based on the IMPERIAL CULT, the figure of Caesar was worshiped like a Divine God, so no more like the old reigns before the romans,but a new thing, a man proclaimed God by the Peoples, the Bible on Maccabees about ANthiocus Epihane IV tell us that he learned this "unknow God" when he was in Rome. Maybe is not a case that the Messiah was in the world in this moment