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OPINION: All around the sporting world lunatics seem to be running the asylum.
Everywhere we look, sport is riven by match fixing and drug taking allegations and rampant manifestations of hubris.
Football - the world's No 1 sport - is no longer the beautiful game. Not since the European Union's police division, Europol, confirmed it was investigating 680 suspicious football games throughout the world, 380 of them in Europe.
Europol's probe has extended to 50 countries. Fifa reckons match fixing reaps around $20 billion a year for sophisticated organised crime syndicates.
Fifa knows a thing or two about corruption. A legal document last year revealed two former senior Fifa officials, ex-president Joao Havelange and his former son-in-law Ricardo Teixeira pocketed more than $25 million in bribes from a marketing company awarded the television rights for two World Cup tournaments.
International Centre for Sport Security deputy director Chris Eaton told London's Daily Mail this week that football is in "a disastrous state".
"Fixing of matches for criminal gambling fraud purposes is absolutely endemic worldwide ... arrogantly happening daily."
The fixers are "real criminals - Italian mafia, Chinese gangs, Russian mafia," said Sylvia Schenk, from corruption watchdog group Transparency International.
Then we have the Lance Armstrong cycling scandal. Stripped of seven Tour de France titles and an Olympic Games bronze medal, the disgraced drugs cheat was still annoyingly opaque in his "tell-all" TV interview with Oprah Winfrey.
Closer to home, the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) has slammed the rising use of illegal substances in professional sport and accused coaches, sports scientists, support staff and "complicit general practitioners" of orchestrating or condoning the use.
The ACC also found organised crime groups were involved in distributing the banned substances.
A year-long ACC probe concluded "multiple players across some sporting codes and at specific clubs" were suspected of using, or having had used, illegal performance or image-enhancing drugs, including peptide and hormones. Many were injecting themselves with the substances.
The Australian Rugby Union banned one state club rugby competition for four years for trafficking a banned substance and sidelined another for two years for possession.
That's hardly surprising considering the long culture among rugby players here and abroad of gobbling copious quantities of creatine, a muscle-building supplement, on the grounds it's a naturally-occurring substance.
Rugby league and Australian rules football are also in the gun with the ACC.
Fingers have been pointed at a former sports scientist at the Essendon Bombers. But Stephen Dank has claimed the substances he administered to players weren't illegal and the Melbourne AFL club's coach knew about the supplements programme.
The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Association (ASADA) called six National Rugby League clubs, Manly, Cronulla, Newcastle, North Queensland, Penrith and Canberra, to a please-explain meeting. Manly, the 2011 champions, claimed they had been cleared of doping. Other outfits have protested their innocence.
But it's the last thing the NRL - Australia's top sports competition - needs on the eve of the 2013 season. Don't forget the current NRL champions are the Melbourne Storm, who were stripped of two titles for massively rorting the salary cap yet are still benefiting because they still have superstars Cameron Smith, Billy Slater and Cooper Cronk on their books.
Least we get too smug this side of the Tasman, New Zealand sport's credibility has taken a hammering with the ham-fistedness of former Black Caps cricket captain Ross Taylor's sacking and the incredulous elasticity of the truth around Sonny Bill Williams' alleged "world" heavyweight title fight with South African has-been Francois Botha.
Enough has been said about Taylor's toppling. The inter-regnum has been rocky for new skipper Brendon McCallum but he'll soon win acceptance if he belts out more innings like his match-winner against England in Hamilton the other night. Time's the ultimate healer.
The cricket kneecapping also seems small beer compared with match fixing and drug taking.
But the Sonny Bill brouhaha is an absolute farce. First we had the risible situation of a 12-round title fight being reduced to 10. Now, we're subjected to daily tit-for-tat claims and counter-claims by Botha and Williams' agent provocateur Khoder Nasser (who is rivalling Richard Prosser, the misguided New Zealand First MP, for the most outrageous outburst of the year).
The ACC or Australia's federal police should investigate Botha's claim Nasser offered him $A150,000 to throw the fight in Brisbane.
We can't totally blame Nasser or his unwitting dupe, Sonny Bill, or the bilious Botha for this can of worms. Nor can the finger be pointed at Sky Television because the fight didn't go 12 rounds.
The buck stops with us - as viewers and sporting consumers.
Who in their right mind in these recessionary times would squander 40 bucks to watch a gifted rugby player duke it out with a washed-up 44-year-old pug?
Not anyone brought up in the 1970s, heavyweight boxing's golden era graced by true champions like Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman and genuine contenders of the calibre of Ken Norton.
So, we can blame ourselves. It wasn't as if the SBW fight was on taxpayer-funded free-to-air TV. No-one forced us to watch it.
We could have sent our 40 bucks for to the City Mission or gifted a gardening kit or piglet to poor people in Papua New Guinea through Oxfam's outreach fund.
How can a scrap between a bloke, who should only really be competing in Fight for Life, be billed as a genuine "world" heavyweight title contest?
How could a reputable promoter say, as Dean Lonergan did, that Sonny Bill should now take on David Tua?
Tua may be almost as old as Botha but he once won an Olympic Games bronze medal and went the whole distance with a true world champion, Lennox Lewis. The Rooster would be plucked if he fought Sonny Bill. Look what happened to Shane Cameron.
We may admire Williams as arguably the most naturally gifted rugby player from either code in New Zealand history. The superb athlete may well have made a great boxer had he taken it up at 10 in some gnarly trainer's gym in south Auckland.
And never forget he donated $100,000 from a 2012 fight to the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Fund, arguably the most altruistic act by an individual sportsperson we've seen since the quakes.
But has Williams made as successful transition to boxing as Olympic rowing champions Mahe Drysdale and Joe Sullivan did to multisport in completing last weekend's Coast to Coast? Not on your life.
We in the media can't wring our hands about the SBW fight fiasco. We're the ones that created the monster. We fell for the hype generated by his promoters, instead of laughing and saying: "No Sir, Mr Nasser".
How can a part-time pug get more publicity from one stage-managed bout than amateur boxing garners in an entire year? The answer's quite simple. We're obsessed with celebrity. Our critical faculties are suspended. Truth goes out the window.
The more I go on in this gig the more I seriously doubt whether professional sport has any merit other than enriching its participants.
We shouldn't begrudge young people making the most of their talents. But the the game changes once one is paid to play. The stakes get higher, especially with sports betting (legal and illicit) now running rampant.
All the current cancers in world sport, match-fixing and drug-taking in particular, can be linked to a common denominator - money.
The Europol and ACC probes are the tip of an iceberg. It's only going to get worse.
It'd be easy to give up on sport in despair, but games can still provide magical, mitigating moments.
We had two of them in Christchurch last weekend with Lydia Ko winning the New Zealand Open women's golf title and Braden Currie becoming the new Coast to Coast champion.
Ko - is a 15-year-old amateur outplaying professionals. Currie is a semi-pro, who earned prize money of $30,000 last year from 15 adventure racing and multisport events.
Perhaps there's a lesson there somewhere.
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A Honda France RC51 Superbike topped final qualifying for the Le Mans 24-Hour, the opening round of the FIM Endurance World Championship. A Yamaha YZF-R7 Superbike fielded by Yamaha France qualified second-fastest, and the GMT94 team qualified third-fastest on a Super Production-class GSX-R1000. Suzuki-Castrol Racing Team qualified fourth overall on another Super Production Suzuki GSX-R1000.

Seventh-fastest overall and first in the Prototype/Open category is the Scratch Moto Angers team on a Kawasaki ZX-12R. Although the team's bike is said to be the heaviest in the field at over 210 kg, or 463 pounds, the Scratch Moto Angers ZX-12R is said to produce over 200 horsepower. In Thursday night practice, the ZX-12R-mounted team was fourth fastest.

Former AMA 750cc Supersport Champion and current Attack Suzuki rider Jason Pridmore is riding for defending Endurance World Champions Whirley Phase One Suzuki,a dn the team qualified 11th fastest qualifier overall and fourth in the GSX-R1000-dominated Super Production class. The top six teams in Super Production qualifying ran on the new GSX-R1000s, but Whirley Phase One's Suzuki is said to be the lightest at 174 kg, or 383.6 pounds.

The fastest Stocksport qualifier is the Team 22 Police Nationale on a Kawasaki ZX-9R at 16th overall. The Police Nationale Kawasaki heads a field full of Yamaha YZF-R1s.

The 22nd-fastest qualifier is the Maxim Endurance Team on an MV Agusta F4. The MV is second fastest in the Prototype class behind the ZX-12R Kawasaki.

Former Formula USA Champion Michael Barnes is riding for Herman Verboven Racing on a Suzuki GSX-R750. The German HVR team qualified 25th overall and 11th in the Superbike class.

Returning Le Mans veteran and new Shogun Motorsports signee Joe Prussiano and his Bikeshire Racing qualified 40th overall and 11th out of 12 entries in the Super Production class on a Yamaha YZF-R1. During Thursday's night practice, Bikeshire was 35th fastest out of 62 entries.

Last on the grid is the Russian squad of Yukos Motorsport International on a Stock Sport Yamaha YZF-R1.

There are 17 entries in the Superbike class, 12 in Super Production, 29 in Stock Sport, and 4 in Prototype/Open.

Superbikes must follow the same rules as most Superbike classes the world over. Starting with a homologated frame of a 750cc four-cylinder or 1000cc two-cylinder production bike, everything about the bike may be modified within the engine displacement limits. Generally, Le Mans Superbikes are retired factory Superbikes that have been de-tuned for reliability and longevity although factories have been known to roll their dice sending out a front-line Superbike weapon.

Super Production is a new class for 2001. Starting from the Stock Sport rules, the Super Production machines are allowed up to 1000cc for four-cylinder and three-cylinder bikes or 1200cc for twin-cylinder bikes. The Super Production machines are basically stock 1000cc motors in Superbike chassis as rules allow the changing of suspension, frame modification, a 24-liter fuel tank made of any material, and slick tires. The rules do not allow the removal of the electric starter or any modifications to the engine, airbox, carburetors or fuel injectors. Remapping of the EFI and the use of different exhausts are allowed. The FIM has reserved the right to institute air flow restrictions during the course of the season to keep the playing field level.

Stock Sport is similar to American Supersport rules restricting engine and chassis modifications. The only differences being that slicks are used and quick-fill gas caps may be installed. The stock wiring harness must remain in place including the connections for the turn signals.

The Prototype/Open class is a special class allowed by the individual event organizer and does not compete for FIM Championship points or the posted purse.

The 24-Hours of Le Mans starts at 3:00 p.m. Central European Time, or 6:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Saturday April 14, 2000.

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HOUSTON — Utah Valley University won its eighth straight game and improved to 5-0 in the Great West Conference, surviving a wild finish, 68-66, at Houston Baptist University on Saturday night.
The Wolverines (15-10) got 16 points from Isiah Williams and double-double of 13 points and 14 rebounds from Ben Aird in staying perfect through the first half of the GWC schedule.
"Winning streaks are wonderful in the fact that they push and motivate a team. This was a hard-fought, tough game and I'm very pleased with win," said UVU head coach Dick Hunsaker. "HBU is an extremely athletic and quick team and they put a lot of pressure on you. We were very fortunate to come out on top in this one."
After taking a four-point lead into the break, UVU maintained the advantage throughout much of the second half. The Wolverines fought off a number of runs by the Huskies (7-15, 1-4) before a frenetic finish.
The game was tied three times in after halftime, but Utah Valley didn't surrender the lead until Anthony Hill hit a 3-pointer with 5:43 to go, giving HBU a 56-55 edge.
Aird then sank two free throws to put UVU back in front before Williams converted a 3-point-play with a layup and a foul shot to five the Wolverines a 60-56 lead.
HBU came back with a five-point spurt, hitting 5-of-6 from the line, to re-take the lead, 61-60, with 2:48 left.
The Huskies had the ball and the lead near the two-minute mark but a steal by Williams and then a put-back by Keith Thompson put UVU on top by a point with 1:58 remaining. Holton Hunsaker followed that with a Big 3 that made it a two-possession game with 1:22 to go.
After a Hunsaker free throw with 18 seconds left gave UVU another four-point lead, Jonathan Evans hit a three to bring HBU within a point. Thompson made a free throw to make it 68-66, setting up the final sequence.
The Huskies had the ball at mid-court with 4.1 seconds left but were unable to get off a game-tying attempt when Marcus Davis slipped on the inbound pass and the Wolverines escaped with the win.
Thompson added 11 points for Utah Valley while Alfonzo Hubbard chipped in 10, giving the Wolverines four players in double figures. Aird's 14 rebounds matched his career high on the glass. Geddes Robinson finished with eight points, six rebounds and four assists.
Terry Bembry led Houston Baptist with 17 points and seven rebounds with Davis added 14 point and six boards.
The win for coach Hunsaker is the 349th of his college coaching career, 182 of which have come in 10 seasons at Utah Valley.
The Wolverines are the in the midst of a four-game Great West road swing, and will make their East Coast trip next week at NJIT (Feb. 9) and Chicago State (Feb. 11).
Clint Burgi is the assistant athletic director for sports information at Utah Valley University. For more information on Wolverine athletics, visit http://www.WolverineGreen.com
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New Zealand's diplomatic bid to create the world's largest marine sanctuary in the Ross Sea has hit problems with Russia, backed by Ukraine, questioning its legality.
New Zealand and the United States have campaigned for two years to create the world's largest marine protected area (MPA) over 2.3 million square kilometres in the Ross Sea.
The proposal was one of two for marine reserves debated at a special meeting of the 25 members of the Commission for the Conservation on Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). The meeting ended overnight in Bremerhaven, Germany.
CCAMLR said member countries would talk about the issue further until the commission's annual meeting in Hobart in October, when the proposal may be discussed again.
The second proposal - from Australia, France and the European Union - is for a cluster of seven marine protected areas in east Antarctica, covering about 1.63m sq km. A consensus of members would be needed for the proposals to succeed.
Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said he was deeply disappointed by the outcome and he expected international pressure would intensify for the right result.
"I have been very open about how big a challenge it was going to be to achieve a consensus outcome at this special meeting," McCully said.
"I am nevertheless deeply disappointed that an agreed MPA in the Ross Sea region has eluded us.
"Reports from the meeting make it clear that the vast majority of CCAMLR members have been flexible and constructive in seeking consensus."
There was room for reasonable differences about the relative positions of conservation, science and fisheries in a Ross Sea MPA, which had to be resolved through dialogue, he said.
"International pressure for responsible leadership will intensify and New Zealand has every intention of playing its full part in ultimately achieving the right outcome," McCully said.
The Antarctic Ocean Alliance slammed "the loss of an extraordinary opportunity to protect the global marine environment for future generations".
All CCAMLR states, including those that had concerns about the proposals, took part in negotiations that could have achieved a result at the meeting, but the Russian delegation, with support from the Ukraine, raised legal issues as to whether CCAMLR had the authority to establish the sanctuary.
"All members, except Russia, came to this meeting to negotiate in good faith," alliance director Steve Campbell said.
Controversially the Ross Sea MPA would have allowed toothfish fishing, pioneered by New Zealand, to continue in the Ross Sea.
Greenpeace Oceans campaigner Richard Page said the need for the sanctuaries was urgent.
"Considerable effort and some rigorous scientific work have been put in by many CCAMLR members to get this far," Page said.
The head of Germany's CCAMLR delegation, Walter Duebner, said Russia's legal concerns would be addressed in October.
"From the papers Russia presented, and reading between the lines, it appears that they did not want the United States and New Zealand determining which areas could be fished and which couldn't," Duebner said.
The United Nations has committed to classifying 10 per cent of the world's coastal waters and oceans as protected areas by 2020, up from the present 2 per cent. Agreement within CCAMLR at this meeting would have doubled the amount of protected ocean.
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Manteca firefighters found evidence of accelerant pours in a small building in the 200 block of West North Street following a 3:30 a.m. blaze that destroyed much of the interior of the building that once served as a Seventh Day Adventist church school in the 1940s.
Hours after the San Joaquin County Superior Court issued an injunction that temporarily closed the new marijuana dispensary in downtown Manteca, the Stockton City Council closed the doors Tuesday night on their similar facility on Acacia Avenue.
The Mothers Against Drunk Drivers held their annual awards luncheon in Ripon on Tuesday where four Manteca officers were cited for a total of 136 DUI arrests in 2009.
Scenes from the South San Joaquin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce mixer conducted Wednesday at the Manteca Visitors & Convention Bureau located in The Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley.
Barbara Larson and Ed Machado do not condone the pot dispensary one iota that opened in the building they once owned in a partnership at 311 East Yosemite Avenue.
A woman walking or possibly running in the darkened number one lane of Highway 99 Monday night was struck and killed when a Ripon motorist failed to see her in time to stop, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The Manteca-Ripon Pentecost Society is conducting a pancake breakfast followed by Bunco and Gil's Card Party on Sunday, March 14.
Manteca-Lathrop-Ripon has the highest percentage of population in San Joaquin County with health insurance coverage.
PG&E's bid to convince voters in June to amend the California constitution to protect the for-profit utility by making it tougher for public agencies to enter the retail power business is a subject of a March 17 California Public Utilities Commission hearing in San Francisco.
Those hoping to score their medicinal marijuana in downtown Manteca are going to have to wait.
Scenes from Sunday's Manteca VFW Post 631 pancake breakfast conducted at the Masonic Hall.
Former Manteca Bulletin Publisher T. Paul Mahony entered a plea of not guilty to a single charge of sexual battery through his attorney in a Manteca courtroom Tuesday afternoon. Mahony was not present at the 1:30 p.m. court session.
The Manteca Convention & Visitors Bureau is offering a series of tours.
STOCKTON - "Be a Breath of Fresh Air in Your Community" is the theme of this year's annual Earth Day Festival on Sunday, April 18, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Victory Park, behind Haggin Museum in Stockton.
A preliminary injunction that could have closed the recently opened marijuana dispensary on West Yosemite Avenue was continued from Monday morning at 8:15 to today at the same time.
For nearly four decades the Three Rivers Indian Lodge has turned its rural Manteca complex into the place to be for Native Americans from throughout ...
The public is being invited to tour the Ripon Police Department quarters on Wilma Avenue on Wednesday from 2 until 7 p.m.
A rural Manteca woman, alone in her bathroom, fled out the back door of her home to the safety of a neighbor as an alleged ...
A special session of the Ripon City Council is planned tonight to consider adopting the North Pointe Specific Plan and General Plan Amendment.
High school students at Ripon's virtual California Connections Academy graduated its third consecutive class of high school seniors recently at the University of the ...
Manteca's Fourth of July some 74 years ago was tempered by fear.
Doctors Hospital CEO Nicholas Tejeda ended his year as president of the Manteca Chamber of Commerce Friday night, handing the reins to Manteca Bulletin Advertising ...
Ripon students won a Friday noon dance competition against three other elementary schools at the Sequoia School multipurpose room involving more than 200 young dancers ...
The 8-year-old granddaughter of Jeff and Donna Weaver of Ripon died in a four-wheel-quad rollover.
Main Street at Manteca's southern city limits will be closed for at least two months.
San Joaquin County residents are getting fatter.
Manteca Police Chief Nick Obligacion knows just how brazen copper thieves can get.
Grant Morrison's New X-Men by Marvel Comics has a local touch.
The undertaking to upgrade levees protecting Manteca, Lathrop, French Camp and the Weston Ranch portion of Stockton would generate substantial economic benefits.
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Legacy of the Roman Empire
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The "legacy of the Roman Empire" refers to the set of cultural values, religious beliefs, as well as technological and other achievements of Ancient Rome which were passed on after the demise of the empire itself and continued to shape other civilizations, a process which continues to this day.
Latin was the lingua franca of the early Roman Empire and later the Western Roman Empire, while particularly in the East indigenous languages such as Greek and to lesser degree Egyptian and Aramaic language continued to be in use. Despite the decline of the Western Roman Empire, the Latin language continued to flourish in the very different social and economic environment of the Middle Ages, not in the least because it became the official language of the Roman Catholic Church. Koine Greek, which served as a lingua franca in the Eastern Empire, is still used today as a sacred language in some Eastern Orthodox churches.
In Western, Central Europe, and parts of Africa, Latin retained its elevated status as the main vehicle of communication for the learned classes throughout the medieval period well into the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Works which made a revolutionary impact on science, such as Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543) were composed in Latin, which was not supplanted for scientific purposes by modern languages until the 18th century, and for formal descriptions in zoology and botany survived to the later 20th century:[1] the modern international Binomial nomenclature holds to this day that the scientific name of each species is classified by a Latin or Latinized name.
Today the Romance languages, which comprise all languages that descended from Latin, are spoken by more than 600 million native speakers worldwide, mainly in the Americas, Europe, and Africa. Additionally, the vocabulary of Germanic languages like German, Dutch, or English contains a large percentage of Latin words. In the case of English, the proportion of words with a Latin or Romance origin is estimated to be over 50%.[2] English has many grammatical similarities to the Romance Languages, particularly French, due to the Norman occupation.
All three official scripts of the modern European Union—Latin, Greek and Cyrillic—descend from writing systems of the Roman Empire. Today, the Latin script, the script of the Latin alphabet spread by the Roman Empire to most of Europe, and derived from the ancient Greek alphabet, is the most far-spread and commonly used script in the world. Spread by various colonies, trade routes, and political powers, the script has continued to grow in influence. The Greek alphabet, which had been popularized throughout the eastern Mediterranean region during the Hellenistic period, remained the primary script of the Eastern Empire. Greek language and writing continued to be actively used in the Byzantine Empire until its demise in the 15th century. Cyrillic script was derived from the Greek alphabet during the Middle Ages as a means of writing Slavic languages, and continues to be used across eastern Europe and northern Asia.
Latin Literature[edit]
The Carolingian Renaissance of the eighth century rescued many works of Latin from oblivion: manuscripts transcribed at that time are our only sources for works that later fell into obscurity once more, only to be recovered during the Renaissance: Tacitus, Lucretius, Propertius and Catullus are examples.[4] Other Latin writers were always read: Virgil was reinterpreted as a prophet of Christianity by the fourth century, and gained the reputation of a sorcerer in the twelfth century.
Cicero, in a limited number of his works, remained a model of good style, mined for quotations. Ovid was read with a Christian allegorical interpretation. Seneca was reimagined as the correspondent of Saint Paul. Lucan, Persius, Juvenal, Horace, Terence, and Statius survived in the continuing canon and historians Valerius Maximus and Livy continued to be read for the moral lessons history was expected to impart.
Greek literature from the Roman Empire also continued to make an impact in Europe long after the Empire's fall, especially after the recovery of Greek texts from the East during the high Middle Ages and the resurgence of Greek literacy during the Renaissance. Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, for instance, originally written in Greek, was widely read by educated Westerners from the Renaissance up to the 20th century. Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar takes most of its material from Plutarch's biographies of Caesar, Cato and Brutus, whose exploits were frequently discussed and debated by the literati of the time.
Calendar and Measurement[edit]
The modern Western calendar is a refinement of the Julian calendar, which was introduced by Julius Caesar. The calendar of the Roman empire began with the months Ianuarius (January), Februarius (February), and Martius (March).
The modern seven-day week follows the Greco-Roman system of Planetary Hours, in which one of the seven planets that were known in ancient times—Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon—is given ``rulership" over each day. The Romance languages preserve the original Latin names of each day of the week, except for Sunday, which came to be called dies dominicus (Lord's Day) under Christianity.
This system for the days of the week spread into Celtic and Germanic peoples before the collapse of the empire, where the names of comparable gods were substituted for the Roman deities. In Germanic languages, for instance, Thor stood in for Jupiter (Jove), yielding ``Thursday" from the Latin ``Dies Iovis."
Numerals and Units[edit]
Roman numerals continued as the primary way of writing numbers in Europe until the 14th century, when they were largely replaced in common usage by Hindu-Arabic numerals. The Roman numeral system continues to be widely used, however, in certain formal and minor contexts, such as on clock faces, coins, in the year of construction on cornerstone inscriptions, and in generational suffixes (such as Louis XIV or William Howard Taft IV).
The Romans solidified the modern concept of the hour as one-24th part of a day and night. The English measurement system also retains features of the Ancient Roman foot, which was used in England prior to the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain. The Roman foot was equal to 11.65 inches in modern units. The inch itself derives from the Roman uncia, meaning one-twelfth part.
Christianity spread through the Roman empire; since emperor Theodosius I (AD 379-395), the official state church of the Roman Empire was Christianity. Subsequently, former Roman territories became Christian states which exported their religion to other parts of the world, through colonization and missionaries.
Christianity also served as a conduit for preserving and transmitting Greco-Roman literary culture. Classical educational tradition in the liberal arts was preserved after the fall of the empire by the medieval Christian university. Education in the Middle Ages relied heavily on Greco-Roman books such as Euclid's Elements and the influential quadrivium textbooks written in Latin by the Roman statesman Boethius (AD 480–524).
Furthermore, early Christians read and wrote major works of Greek and Latin literature. Many of the most influential works of the early Christian tradition were written by Roman and Hellenistic theologians who were well read in the literature of the time and engaged heavily with the culture of the empire (See church fathers). St. Augustine's (AD 354-430) City of God, for instance, draws extensively on Virgil, Cicero, Varro, Homer, Plato, and elements of Roman values and identity to criticize paganism and advocate for Christianity amidst a crumbling empire. The engagement of early Christians as both readers and writers of important Roman and Greek literature helped to ensure that the literary culture of Rome would persist after the fall of the empire. For thousands of years to follow, religious scholars in the Latin West from Bede to Thomas Aquinas and later renaissance figures such as Dante, Montaigne and Shakespeare would continue to read, reference and imitate both Christian and pagan literature from the Roman empire. In the east, the empire's prolific tradition of Greek literature continued uninterrupted after the fall of the west, in part due to the works of the Greek fathers, who were widely read by Christians in medieval Byzantium and continue to influence religious thought to this day (see Byzantine literature).
Science and Philosophy[edit]
While much of the most influential Greek science and philosophy was developed before rise of the Empire, major innovations occurred under Roman rule that have had a lasting impact on the intellectual world. The traditions of Greek, Egyptian and Babylonian scholarship continued to flourish at great centers of learning such as Athens, Alexandria, and Pergamon.
Epicurean philosophy reached a literary apex in the long poem by Lucretius, who advocated an atomic theory of matter and revered the older teachings of the Greek Democritus. The works of the philosophers Seneca the Younger, Epictetus and the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius were widely read during the revival of Stoic thought in the Renaissance, which synthesized Stoicism and Christianity. Fighter pilot James Stockdale famously credited the philosophy of Epictetus as being a major source of strength when he was shot down and held as prisoner during the Vietnam War. Plato's philosophy continued to be widely studied under the Empire, growing into the sophisticated neoplatonic system through the influence of Plotinus. Platonic philosophy was largely reconciled with Christianity by the Roman theologian Augustine of Hippo, who, while a staunch opponent of Roman paganism, viewed the Platonists as having more in common with Christians than the other pagan schools.[6] To this day, Plato's Republic is considered the foundational work of Western philosophy, and is read by students around the globe.
Pagan philosophy was gradually supplanted by Christianity in the later years of the Empire, culminating in the closure of the Academy of Athens by Justinian I. Many Greek-speaking philosophers moved to the east, outside the borders of the Empire. Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism gained a stronghold in Persia, where they were a heavy influence on early Islamic philosophy. Thinkers of the Islamic Golden Age such as Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and Ibn Rushd (Averroës) engaged deeply with Greek philosophy, and played a major role in saving works of Aristotle that had been lost to the Latin West. The influence of Greek philosophy on Islam was dramatically reduced In the 11th century when the views of Avicenna and Avveroes were strongly criticized by Al-Ghazali. His Incoherence of the Philosophers is among the most influential books in Islamic history. In Western Europe, meanwhile, the recovery of Greek texts during the Scholastic period had a profound influence on Latin science and theology from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance.
In science, the theories of the Greco-Roman physician Galen dominated Western medical thought and practice for more than 1,300 years. Ptolemy produced the most thorough and sophisticated astronomical theory of antiquity, documented in the Almagest. The Ptolemaic model of the solar system would remain the dominant approach to astronomy across Europe and the Middle East for more than a thousand years.
At Alexandria, the engineer and experimentalist Hero of Alexandria founded the study of mechanics and pneumatics. In modern geometry, Heron's formula bears his name. Roman Alexandria also saw the seeds of modern algebra arise in the works of Diophantus. Greek algebra continued to be studied in the east well after the fall of the Western Empire, where it matured into modern algebra in the hands of al-Khwārizmī (see the history of algebra). The study of Diophantine Equations and Diophantine Approximations are still important areas of mathematical research today.
Roman Law and Politics[edit]
Although the law of the Roman Empire is not used today, modern law in many jurisdictions is based on principles of law used and developed during the Roman Empire. Some of the same Latin terminology is still used today. The general structure of jurisprudence used today, in many jurisdictions, is the same (trial with a judge, plaintiff, and defendant) as that established during the Roman Empire.
The modern concept of republican government is directly modeled on the Roman Republic. The republican institutions of Rome survived in many of the Italian city-states of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The United States Congress is inspired by the Roman senate and legislative assemblies, while the president holds a position similar to that of a Roman consul. Many European political thinkers of the Enlightenment were avid consumers of Latin literature. Montesquieu, Edmund Burke, and John Adams were all strongly influenced by Cicero, for instance. Adams recommended Cicero as a model for politicians to imitate, and once remarked that ``the sweetness and grandeur of his sounds, and the harmony of his numbers give pleasure enough to reward the reading if one understood none of his meaning."[8]
Many Roman inventions were improved versions of other people's inventions and ranged from military organization, weapon improvements, armour, siege technology, naval innovation, architecture, medical instruments, irrigation, civil planning, construction, agriculture and many more areas of civic, governmental, military and engineering development.
That said, the Romans also developed a huge array of new technologies and innovations. Many came from common themes but were vastly superior to what had come before, whilst others were totally new inventions developed by and for the needs of Empire and the Roman way of life.
Some of the more famous examples are the Roman aqueducts (some of which are still in use today), Roman roads, water powered milling machines, thermal heating systems (as employed in Roman baths, and also used in palaces and wealthy homes) sewage and pipe systems and the invention and widespread use of concrete.
Metallurgy and glass work (including the first widespread use of glass windows) and a wealth of architectural innovations including high rise buildings, dome construction, bridgeworks and floor construction (seen in the functionality of the Colosseum's arena and the underlying rooms/areas beneath it) are other examples of Roman innovation and genius.
Military inventiveness was widespread and ranged from tactical/strategic innovations, new methodologies in training, discipline and field medicine as well as inventions in all aspects of weaponry, from armor and shielding to siege engines and missile technology.
This combination of new methodologies, technical innovation, and creative invention in the military gave Rome the edge against its adversaries for half a millennium, and with it, the ability to create an empire that even today, more than 2000 years later, continues to leave its legacy in many areas of modern life.
In the mid-18th century, Roman architecture inspired neoclassical architecture. Neoclassicalism was an international movement. Though neoclassical architecture employs the same classical vocabulary as Late Baroque architecture, it tends to emphasize its planar qualities, rather than sculptural volumes. Projections and recessions and their effects of light and shade are flatter; sculptural bas-reliefs are flatter and tend to be enframed in friezes, tablets or panels. Its clearly articulated individual features are isolated rather than interpenetrating, autonomous and complete in themselves.
International neoclassical architecture was exemplified in Karl Friedrich Schinkel's buildings, especially the Old Museum in Berlin, Sir John Soane's Bank of England in London and the newly built White House and Capitol in Washington, DC in the United States. The Scots architect Charles Cameron created palatial Italianate interiors for the German-born Catherine II the Great in St. Petersburg.
Italy clung to Rococo until the Napoleonic regimes brought the new archaeological classicism, which was embraced as a political statement by young, progressive, urban Italians with republican leanings.
Imperial idea[edit]
The Roman line continued uninterrupted to rule the Eastern Roman Empire, whose main characteristics were Roman concept of state, medieval Greek culture and language, and Orthodox Christian faith. The Byzantines themselves never ceased to refer to themselves as "Romans" (Rhomaioi) and to their state as the "Roman Empire", the "Empire of the Romans" (in Greek Βασιλεία των Ῥωμαίων, Basileía ton Rhōmaíōn) or "Romania" (Ῥωμανία, Rhōmanía). Likewise, they were called "Rûm" (Rome) by their eastern enemies to the point that competing neighbours even acquired its name, such as the Sultanate of Rûm.
The designation of the Empire as "Byzantine" is a retrospective idea: it began only in 1557, a century after the fall of Constantinople, when German historian Hieronymus Wolf published his work Corpus Historiæ Byzantinæ, a collection of Byzantine sources. The term did not come in general use in the Western world before the 19th century[citation needed], when modern Greece was born. The end of the continuous tradition of the Roman Empire is open to debate: the final point was the capture of Constantinople in 1453 AD, while some place it at the sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204.
In Western Europe, the Roman concept of state was continued for almost a millennium by the Holy Roman Empire whose emperors, mostly of German tongue, viewed themselves as the legitimate successors to the ancient imperial tradition (King of the Romans) and Rome as the capital of its Empire. The German title of "Kaiser" is derived from the Latin word for "Caesar". The word Caesar is pronounced /kajsar/ in Classical Latin. The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806 owing to pressure by Napoleon I. In the early 20th century, the Italian fascists under their "Duce" Benito Mussolini dreamed of a new Roman Empire as an Italian one, encompassing the Mediterranean basin.
In Eastern Europe, the Russian czars (Czar derived from Caesar) adopted the idea of Moscow in Russia being a Third Rome (with Constantinople being the second). Sentiments[citation needed] of being the heir of the fallen Eastern Roman Empire began during the reign of Ivan III, Grand Duke of Moscow who had married Sophia Paleologue, the niece of Constantine XI, the last Eastern Roman Emperor. Being the most powerful Orthodox Christian state, the Tsars were thought[by whom?] of in Russia as succeeding the Eastern Roman Empire as the rightful rulers of the Orthodox Christian world. There were also competing Bulgarian, Wallachian[9][10] and Ottoman claims for legal succession of the Roman Empire, Mehmet II "the Conqueror" claiming the title Kayser-i Rûm, meaning Caesar of Rome.
See also[edit]
- Western Roman Empire
- Byzantine Empire
- Legacy of Byzantium
- Third Rome
- Eastern Romance substratum
- Origin of the Romanians
- ^ See History of Latin.
- ^ Finkenstaedt, Thomas; Dieter Wolff (1973). Ordered Profusion; studies in dictionaries and the English lexicon. C. Winter. ISBN 3-533-02253-6.
- ^ "Incunabula Short Title Catalogue". British Library. Retrieved 2 March 2011.
- ^ Roberto Weiss, The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity (Oxford: Blackwell) 1969:1.
- ^ Roberts & Skeat 1983, pp. 38−67; 75
- ^ Agustine, De Civitate Dei, book viii.
- ^ Alphabetical Index of the 192 United Nations Member States and Corresponding Legal Systems, Website of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa
- ^ Carl J. Richard, Why We're All Romans: The roman Contribution to the Western World, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010, p. 122.
- ^ Why angels fall: a journey through Orthodox Europe from Byzantium to Kosovo ISBN 978-0-312-23396-9
- ^ The Great Church in captivity: a study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the eve of the Turkish conquest to the Greek War of Independence ISBN 978-0-521-31310-0
- Roberts, Colin H.; Skeat, T. C. (1983), The Birth of the Codex, London: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-726024-1
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