the clay of the roman empire Edit

the roman empire evolved. It became the "clay" of the developing country's. The reason I say that they are the clay was because they're government and their war tactics, were re-used in other empires. For example the "clay" of their democracy were used and reformed in our country to create our government. A lot of our democracy and our voteing systems and political systems evolved from the roman empire.

The relation of the roman empire being like clay is because of how it evolved. The roman empire did not evolve into a greater power and more bigger structure. But instead it was used and remolded into a different shape. The Democracy of the U.S., the battle tactics of Asia and the middle east. The philosophical views from the romans that have been spread out into millions of places in modern society, such as the Meditations and Aristotle.  It multiplied into different parts and subjects all to be re-used and shaped into creating the culture and structures of many country's to follow the roman empire.

I believe that the roman empire did not fall. What had happened was that the other country's became stronger to match the wit and greatness of the roman empire, not because they themselves became better on their own, but because they were learning from the romans. Which made the roman empire not fall and collapse but become more common. Although it did collapse and fall sometimes. Such as when Nero "watched it burn to the ground". But when he did that what he planned to do was to start over. To create a new society for the greatness and benefit of the roman empire.

 "no empire has ever fallen – but rather been absorbed into the peoples and ways of living ." this is an exact description of what has happened with the roman empire. Roman influence can be found Everywhere in  many different country's weather its their roman pillars and architecture. Their artistic skills. The technology of their society such as sewage systems, crossbows, and stadiums. Lastly their democracy can be found being used in a lot of country's today. The roman empire did not fall and collapse, it was molded into something new, and spread out across the entire world.

the "Clay" of the roman empire

the roman empire evolved. It became the "clay" of the developing country's.

The reason they are the clay of the country's was because they're government and their war tactics, were re-used in other empires. For example the "clay" of their democracy were used and reformed in our country to create our government. A lot of our democracy and our voteing systems and political systems evolved from the roman empire. Also Roman battle tactics have been re developed for use in modern day warfare.

The relation of the roman empire being like clay is because of how it evolved. The roman empire did not evolve into a greater power and more bigger structure. But instead it was used and remolded into a different shape. The Democracy of the U.S., the battle tactics of Asia and the middle east. The philosophical views from the romans that have been spread out into millions of places in modern society, such as the Meditations and Aristotle.  It multiplied into different parts and subjects all to be re-used and shaped into creating the culture and structures of many country's to follow the roman empire.

The roman empire did not fall. What had happened was that the other country's became stronger to match the wit and greatness of the roman empire, not because they themselves became better on their own, but because they were learning from the romans. Which made the roman empire not fall and collapse but become more common. Although it did collapse and fall sometimes. Such as when Nero "watched it burn to the ground". But when he did that what he planned to do was to start over. To create a new society for the greatness and benefit of the roman empire. 

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Stoicism is the ability to endure pain and hardship while retaining the ability to contain ones emotions; Seneca at his death was a perfect example of a stoic

Here are some quotes from the death of seneca that show he was a stoic

For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come 

and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?   This is in example of how he lives. Seneca says in his writeing that the people who are "free of mind" are the people who can disregard anger and happiness. To not fall into desire or a fear. To show no emotion at all and to be free of mind, that is what a stoic is, And that is what he says in the passage.

Another quote from the death of seneca 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves" what he is talking about in this passage is what happens to someone when he does not escape and repress his feelings. that if he doesn’t he will struggle with no one but himself and his own feelings. Seneca knows this, because he has escaped from "himself" and looked back upon how he used to be before he escaped his feelings or became a stoic.

Seneca raises the Peripatetic objection that some passions are useful in helping to achieve certain ends. Aristotle, for example, believes that anger, by emboldening men, actually helps wars to be won. For Seneca though, a passion by its very nature is an impulse of the soul completely disobedient to reason, and therefore can never be of any practical use. Insofar as anger is useful in winning wars then it ceases to be anger, but is instead an emotion subordinate to reason. It is by the power of reason that wars are won, not by the power of the passions. He believes that  passions are but a poison of the soul with no reason of being there.

Later he changes his mind about the passions that they are but an opinion reasoned by the mind to be decided. Such as laughing at a joke. These emotions can be controlled and reasoned with.