Why do americans larp as romans?

Lincoln Memorial is better

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t. izoc

The buildings don't come along with republicanism dumbass; the Greeks had Monarchs and Democracies with that architecture too

Have you ever been there? I would be cool to sit on the statue.

Not him but I have and you can't. Its not allowed and there's no way to climb it.

t. Cletus Jamal-Davis

Oh, (´・ω・｀)
That's fair but still, would be cool to sit on the shoulders of a literal giant.

CHI

>a form of which France later copied
cringe

We Chinese appreciate Roman architecture.

American revolution: 1776
French revolution: 1792

I studied American art and IIRC it has something to do with the values of Classicism. Basically trying to evoke the values of Democracy(Greece) and the Republic (Rome).

We actually had a Supreme Court justice named "Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II".

What is inside? Besides the statue

Im studying the history of art and honestly consider neoclasicism lazy and boring as fuck
also actual greek and roman temples werent completelly white, many parts where painted except the columns

white is easier to maintain. every public building in America used to be white. Because white is right.

Laws and Institutions are Romans, or do you think they sprang up randomly as American?

This is the tomb og george washington

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the parthenon in nashville has some color
i remember another building like this somewhere in america that was painted but i don't remember the name

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Washington statue

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I have. It looks even better in person.

it's called neoclassicism
even the statue of liberty is neoclassical af btw

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The Founding Fathers had a boner for Rome and Greece because they were quite literally creating a government out of nothing as an intentional plan, something that had never really been done on that scale before in Western Civilization. A number of them dug pretty deep into Greco-Roman history and political science because of it. Jefferson was the one who did this the most (it's worth noting that Jefferson also hated Plato).

And then some time later Britain started digging around in Italy and found that a bunch of cool stuff having to do with Greece and Rome still existed and the Pope and friends were just letting it rot, so they stole it away in the interest of actually learning about Greece and Rome. The British at the time had this weird trend amongst their upper crust where they would literally LARP (as in, live action roleplay, not the weird meme about authenticity) as foreign cultures. This attention to Greco-Roman society lead to a great interest in Greco-Roman architecture, which was adopted by the United States around this time as the Federal Government started doing a lot of infrastructure investment and bureaucratic enlargement. Neoclassical styles were chosen because MUH ROME but also because they really stood out from the rest of the country's architecture. In essence, it meant that you could instantly identify Federal Government buildings by their distinctive architecture. This is copied in a lot of State buildings as well, or at least it was before people started falling for the brutalism meme.

>Founded our government after the principles of the Roman republic
Yeah no idea

Thomas Jefferson really liked Roman architecture.

You do realize that this is the most peaceful time in human history, right?

Truth, most prosperous and technologically advanced, most educated and most prosoerous for all classes.

how many millions of people have the usa directly or indirectly killed since 1945 again

Less than Russia that's for sure.

Why do americucks have Muhammad in their supreme court?

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>i'm studying the history of art

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Doesn't matter
slides.ourworldindata.org/war-and-violence/#/title-slide

Ireland, france, spain and germany also have neoclacisism
Its just really uninspiring and bland, except for a few like pic related
>some red in the frontón
Already an improvement, and the sobrerrelieve sculptures look decent
Pretty based

we were a republic and the only important western republic up to that point had been rome

The roman republic didnt work like a modern republic, politicians often blatantly "bought" voters and won the elections that way *cough*althought in current times you do pay for advertisement campaigns and its a basic requirement to spend a shitload in order to win*cough*

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i went there once, we had to get back to the hotel before nightfall though (dc is a really rough city) and it was like a mile away but i got a good view because its so fucking huge. saw the supreme court and congress and the smithsonian and shit though, supreme court has a statue of mohammad inside the courtroom

Xboxes and candies

Why do non republics larp as Senatus Populusque?

rome was founded as a republic which is who you were ripping off

Is this why every state capitol looks the same?

yeah but we wuz romans

how do you know thats mohammad? it wouldnt make sense since your country has almost not association with islam in its founding. are you sure it isnt abraham?

>classicism represents political ideology
No, just no

stepfeed.com/the-us-supreme-court-sees-prophet-muhammad-as-one-of-the-greatest-lawgivers-9857

They also have people like Moses and Hamarabi and stuff. Basically famous historical figures that made laws lots of people followed. Also people forget that before those Danish cartoons depictions of Muhammed weren't that taboo in the west. He was just kind of a religious figure that most knew of.

>Sculpture figures prominently in the Corinthian architecture of the Court Building. One chamber features a frieze decorated with a bas-relief sculpture by Adolph A. Weinman of eighteen influential law-givers. The south wall depicts Menes, Hammurabi, Moses, Solomon, Lycurgus, Solon, Draco, Confucius and Octavian, while the north wall depicts Napoleon Bonaparte, John Marshall, William Blackstone, Hugo Grotius, Louis IX, King John, Charlemagne, Justinian and, you guessed it, Mohammad.

ok now i understand

Our pantheon is also in that style but I think its fitting since Greeks were the ones that came up with it

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>rome was founded as a republic
>british education

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you're actually fucking stupid lol
do you think you amerisharts came up with modern republicanism yourselves? your founding fathers were greatly influenced by the ideas of the french enlightenment
america is a french creation, both spiritually and practically

wait
they literally have an image of muhammad there and the muslims aren't mad yet

>wich france later copied
Nigga the constitution was based in the works of Rene and Descartes

yeah, i should've said relief not statue

>we had to get back to the hotel before nightfall though (dc is a really rough city)
College kids in DC get drunk in bars and then walk around the monuments after the bars close. It's incredibly safe there

very slightly, they understand we meant well. it's illegal to alter the supreme court building, though

our hotel wasnt under the fucking washington monument

muslims have asked to have it removed
>In 1997, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) asked for the image of Muhammad to be removed from the marble frieze of the façade. While appreciating that Muhammad was included in the court's pantheon of 18 prominent lawgivers of history, CAIR noted that Islam discourages depictions of Muhammad in any artistic representation. CAIR also objected that Muhammad was shown with a sword, which they claimed reinforced stereotypes of Muslims as intolerant conquerors.

this is another building with some color on it

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Yes, despite USA and UK's best effort

romans were just larping as greeks anyway

kek

Because we are literally Rome 2.0

>Neoclassical architecture constitutes as larping

I like it.

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Everyone culture larps off of another culture.

>this is the most peaceful time in human history
depends where you live

>Pax Americana
lolled

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>visible cocks
How did american allow it?
They usually go crazy even for a nipple.

whites in general are larping as roman when they want to show authority off

Why are Italians larping as romans (Finns)?

Very nice, does it serve a purpose or is it there just for show?

They are cringe

>French enlightenment

It's not wrong to call it "French Enlightenment". The main part of the Age of Enlightenment took place in France, in the minds of French philosophers, and the central doctrines of the French part of the Age of Enlightenment were individual liberty and religious tolerance, doctrines that the US constitution is entirely based on.

>why do americans