How much Roman culture has influenced modern Italian culture? Do Italians see themselves as the sucessors of Rome...

How much Roman culture has influenced modern Italian culture? Do Italians see themselves as the sucessors of Rome? Do they keep Roman traits in culture, politics etc?
Same question for Spain and Latin America.

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Medivalism is closer in time

the lombards has more influence than the romans

Maybe in northern Italy but lombards were not a thing in southern Italy.
Also I wanna listen to actual Italians, not muh heritage.

Language, Roman/Napoleonic law code (Mexican penalties are harsher than American ones: 40 years for a rape, 70 years for kidnapping) and mixed Roman/French architecture for richfags comes to mind immediately.

>Roman/French architecture for richfags comes to mind immediately
Examples? Putin friends build ugly shit with no taste.

>The word siesta of the Spanish language derives originally from the Latin word hora sexta "sixth hour" (counting from dawn, hence "midday rest").

>How much Roman culture has influenced modern Italian culture?
Certainly a lot through the Roman institutions and language as well as the strong presence of the Roman Catholic church.
>Do Italians see themselves as the sucessors of Rome? Do they keep Roman traits in culture, politics etc?
Only in blood, spiritually and culturally we're pretty much the opposite, dishonorable, disorganized, cowardly.

>dishonorable, disorganized, cowardly
Well, it describes Imperial Rome pretty well.
>through the Roman institutions
Do you have any Roman institutions remained?

>it describes Imperial Rome pretty well
literally how? even the late Roman army was very well organized and still kicking ass

>Do you have any Roman institutions remained?
nothing unique that I'm aware of, the Republic and the civil law are shared by pretty much everyone

I guess this counts (?)

he didn't imply heritage at all

you russians are so fucking dumb

>Do you have any Roman institutions remained?
Roman Catholic church is probably the only unbroken institution from the roman empire, everything else got destroyed at least once by migrants (barbarians)

>Roman Catholic church is probably the only unbroken institution from the roman empire
It's retarded cult which was the reason why Romans switched from cool hedonism to retarded shitty conservative norms, fuck it.
Also barbarians didn't destroy Roman institutions, they have become quickly Romanized themselves, look at France, Italy, Spain.

well, I had to study latin in high school wich was a huge waste of time and roman law in college wich is also currently proving to be an ever bigger waste of time AND money
I wish we would stop LARPing honestly

how different is latin to modern italian?

The words are there but the sentence structure is completely different and the grammar is a lot more complex

in terms of vocabulary and intonation not that much all things considered, the real strong difference is the grammar, which pretty much makes Latin almost unintelligible at times

among major Romance languages Italian is still the closest IIRC, only surpassed by Sardinian

It's a State religion that outlived its state
your opinions dont change the fact that it is Roman

seeing how italy has had many governments/rulers since rome, the first schools/universities were founded in the 1000's, and italy's population and econemy have changed many many times since the fall of rome, the only "institutions" still in use from roman times are the Catholic church, and maybe the Sardinian language
San Marino Declared independence from Rome in 301a.d. so they may be your best bet besides the church

Also Spain was a better Rome than Italy ever was

The Romans were the first to unite all celt and iberian tribes in a single government.

Roman traditions and technology was forgotten when they stopped ruling the peninsula
We still have beautiful roman remains that every tourist in Spain should visit
>Aqueduct of Segovia
>Walls of Lugo (Lucus Augusta)
>Mosaics and Theater of Mérida (Augusta Emerita)
and many more

>Roman traditions and technology was forgotten when they stopped ruling the peninsula
Didn't locals under wizigoth rule and than under moors build aqueducts and shit? Moors certainly did it.

WE

>Romanian

romanian t b h

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t. Dimitru

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>well, I had to study latin in high school wich was a huge waste of time
can confirm, kids hands off Latin

romanian has strong slavic influence in vocabulary

tfw barbarian scum

>among major Romance languages Italian is still the closest IIRC, only surpassed by Sardinian

You mean French

Bogdan are you latin?
Da
Jean-Pierre are you latin?
Oui

Are you serious? Your pronunciation and grammar are completely different from Latin.

redpill: greeks are the successors of Rome. I think they even call their language "Romaic"

Roman was not an ethnicity, Artjom

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yes

>greeks are the successors of Rome
Lolno, they are the succesors of Byzantium which was absolutely different from Western Roman Empire. It had been classic Eastern empire which later became Ottoman Empire.

byzantium = roman empire u goof

Byzantium is a word made up by modern historiographers. it was never used by the Byzantines who called themselves Romans and their state the Roman Empire.

stupid churka

They called themselves Roman, not the language.

no look it up. They call the language Roman too.

maybe grammar wise, vocab wise its one of the least latin tho

RIP Dalmatian

>Extinct: 10 June 1898, when Tuone Udaina was killed