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Can the Byzantine Empire be considered Roman?
The Ship of Theseus asks you to consider a wooden ship. A plank breaks and you replace it. Another plank breaks and you replace it. This continues until the entire ship has been replaced. Is it the same ship?
Something similar can be thought of with Rome. A small sailing ship that has parts not only replaced, but added, growing and growing until the original sailing ship is a lifeboat on a gigantic cruise liner. The cruise liner is partly dismantled and reassembled as two liners, one Eastern and one Western, and the Western one sinks, taking the sailing ship with it. Can the surviving liner stake any claim to the legacy of the sailing ship?
I think so. Since there was in effect continuity of government at least until 1204, the incremental changes don't really matter. Rome was always changing anyway. Romulus wouldn't recogognise Tarquin wouldn't recognise Fabius wouldn't recognise Augustus wouldn't recognise Domitian wouldn't recognise Commodus wouldn't recognise Gallienus wouldn't recognise Diocletian wouldn't recognise Constantine wouldn't recognise Theodosius.
Change happens suckas!
Alternate OP hey watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_2E0RxVHH4
And this too because Crusaders be cray cray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBvAJcw7P8
The Ship of Theseus asks you to consider a wooden ship. A plank breaks and you replace it. Another plank breaks and you replace it. This continues until the entire ship has been replaced. Is it the same ship?
Something similar can be thought of with Rome. A small sailing ship that has parts not only replaced, but added, growing and growing until the original sailing ship is a lifeboat on a gigantic cruise liner. The cruise liner is partly dismantled and reassembled as two liners, one Eastern and one Western, and the Western one sinks, taking the sailing ship with it. Can the surviving liner stake any claim to the legacy of the sailing ship?
I think so. Since there was in effect continuity of government at least until 1204, the incremental changes don't really matter. Rome was always changing anyway. Romulus wouldn't recogognise Tarquin wouldn't recognise Fabius wouldn't recognise Augustus wouldn't recognise Domitian wouldn't recognise Commodus wouldn't recognise Gallienus wouldn't recognise Diocletian wouldn't recognise Constantine wouldn't recognise Theodosius.
Change happens suckas!
Alternate OP hey watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_2E0RxVHH4And this too because Crusaders be cray cray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBvAJcw7P8 +4
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