Erdoğan'a Mussolini Benzetmesi
The Erdogan call turned out to be an experience. Listening to him (his remarks were always interpreted), he sounded like Mussolini speaking from his Rome balcony, except that Erdogan was talking in that tone and colume over the phone. It was as if he were lecturing us while standing on the Resolute desk.
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Bütün Batı uygarlıkları arasında, Roma Uygarlığı, intiharı en çok desteklemiş uygarlık olarak görülür. Seçkinler sınıfında Stoacılığın önemi ve kendini öldüren ünlü kişilerin sayısı bu ünün haklılığını ortaya koymuştur.
Le Suicide Dans la Rome antique [Antik Roma’da İntihar] konulu büyük yapıtında Yolande Grisé, İÖ 5. yüzyıl - İS 11. yüzyıl arasında, 314 ünlü kişinin istemli ölüm olayıyla (yani Avrupa’da, 1300 yılından günümüze dek görülebilecek olandan çok daha fazla) ilgili referanstan gösteren yirmi sayfalık bir tablo sunar.
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''I loved Caesar as much as any of his friends. I killed Caesar because i loved Rome more.''
Religion and culture are regularly put to work on imperialism’s behalf, incorporating the conquering power into local traditions. But at the same time religion and culture may always work against imperialist power, in reasserting the distinctiveness of native traditions against the forces (whether military or cultural) of occupation.
The cosmology of the cult of Isis, too, often incorporates other cults and deities. Though the goddess was of explicitly Egyptian origin, Isiac hymns (preserved on inscriptions) praised her as responsible for the whole apparatus of the Graeco-Roman pantheon; and her adherents claimed that she was worshipped under many different divine names throughout the world – that she was (in other words) the goddess otherwise worshipped under the name of Venus, Minerva or Magna Mater
'Superstitio', differed from 'religio' in its excessive devotion towards ritual and the gods, which was often seen to be motivated by an inappropriate desire for knowledge.
It is the attempt to maintain a unified political centre that leads to the invention of political subversives.
Priesthoods, unlike magistracies, were held for life, they were eagerly sought; partly too because the number of positions available meant that only a quarter to a third of senators, and a half of all consuls, could become priests.
The combination of civil and military power in the hands of the emperor meant that the pomerium, as a religious boundary, ceased to exclude the military. Thus in 2 B.C. the god Mars received for the first time a temple within the pomerium.
The modern denial of Roman mythology does seem almost perverse. After all, the public imagery of late republican and Augustan Rome was largely mythological; the early books of Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus are full of mythological stories about early Rome; Ovid’s Fasti consists very largely of descriptions of festivals and their associated myths. These writers would have been perplexed to be told (as is implied in much modern work on the subject) that their myths were either trivial or merely foreign imports, and so of little significance for Roman culture and religion.