{"id":1903,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/greek-students-claim-rome-appropriating-culture\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:58:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:58:52","slug":"greek-students-claim-rome-appropriating-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/greek-students-claim-rome-appropriating-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Students Claim Rome Appropriating Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Liam Coles, 146 BCE<\/a><\/h6>\n
Jan. 22, 2016<\/h6>\n

ATHENS, 146 BCE\u2013 <\/delete><\/insert>Just this week students at the Lyceum in Athens began protesting Rome\u2019s appropriation of Greek culture. Over CC students put down their scrolls of Euclid for the day to protest what they feel to be the largest social justice issue of their time. Several protesters held up picket scrolls, several of <\/delete>which said<\/delete>read<\/insert>, \u201cToga parties AREN\u2019T<\/delete>are NOT<\/insert> funny.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paraponi\u00e1riki Sk\u00fdla<\/delete>Loukianos the Elder<\/insert>, leader of the student protests, marched on the house of the Rector Provinciae, shouting, \u201cWe, the Student\u2019s Front of Athens (SFA), take great offense to the immoral and down right lazy appropriation of Greek religion on behalf of the Romans.\u201d Mr. Sk\u00fdla<\/delete>Loukianos<\/insert> later expanded on his statement, saying <\/insert>the<\/delete> unjust and amateur<\/delete> nature of the misappropriation:<\/delete> \u201cWe created Zeus first.<\/insert> and simply switching<\/delete>Just because you switched<\/insert> his name to Jupiter does not make these same depraved sexual escapades done in his name <\/insert>any less insulting<\/insert>marring<\/delete> to our identity as Greeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAnother leading member of the SFA, Kolotripa Misosophia<\/delete>Alcaeus of Thessalonika<\/insert>, continued the group\u2019s gripes stating, \u201cCaesar and his cronies are stealing our buildings while continually being prejudiced against our people. They all claim to want \u2018authentic\u2019 Greek architecture, but none of the infighting, political instability, and bureaucratic nightmares that come with being Greek. They are picking at our cultural identity so they can profit from Greek originality and labor. Think about it: Pantheon is pretty freaking close to Parthenon. No one is ever going to confuse those II in MM years.\u201d <\/p>\n

\tSeveral protesters praised the end of the Roman Republic as an end to the Roman usurpation of Greek popular government. \u201cGreeks were always shamed for having government based on the people,\u201d said Ch\u00e1lase Klafthmyr\u00edzon<\/delete>Lysandra the Winsome<\/insert>, \u201ceven though we have been doing it for years. <\/delete>The Romans hijacking it without any repercussions was a complete societal injustice. We are glad they’ve decided to give it up<\/insert>it failed<\/delete>, but we still have several goals to meet before we end their systematic oppression. Well, not the literal political oppression, just the social one<\/delete>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tLastly, the group gave a list of demands to end the cycle of prejudice and violence that keeps the Romans on top by stealing Greek originality. Some of these including the immediate end<\/insert>halt<\/delete> to all<\/delete> togas worn by non-Hellenic <\/insert>outside Hellenized regions<\/delete>people<\/insert>, a prohibition of olive oil for all Romans, and the installation of <\/insert>plaques on ionic columns acknowledging their debt<\/insert>complete end<\/delete> to marble columns outside of<\/delete> the Greek world.“<\/insert> <\/p>\n

The SFA state they shall continue protesting until victorious, unless they find something more pointless to whine about in the mean time. <\/delete>When asked about the Roman Empire, one anonymous protester summed up the entire movement, responding, \u201cIt\u2019s all Greek to me.“<\/insert><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Liam Coles, 146 BCE Jan. 22, 2016 ATHENS, 146 BCE\u2013 Just this week students at the Lyceum in Athens began protesting Rome\u2019s appropriation of Greek culture. Over CC students put down their scrolls of Euclid for the day to protest what they feel to be the largest social justice issue of their time. Several protesters held up picket scrolls, several of which saidread, \u201cToga parties AREN\u2019Tare NOT funny.\u201d Paraponi\u00e1riki Sk\u00fdlaLoukianos the Elder, leader of the student protests, marched on the house of the Rector Provinciae, shouting, \u201cWe, the Student\u2019s Front of Athens (SFA), take great offense to the immoral and down right lazy appropriation of Greek religion on behalf of the Romans.\u201d Mr. Sk\u00fdlaLoukianos later expanded on his statement, saying the unjust and amateur nature of the misappropriation: \u201cWe created Zeus first. and simply switchingJust because you switched his name to Jupiter does not make these same depraved sexual escapades done in his name any less insultingmarring to our identity as Greeks.\u201d Another leading member of the SFA, Kolotripa MisosophiaAlcaeus of Thessalonika, continued the group\u2019s gripes stating, \u201cCaesar and his cronies are stealing our buildings while continually being prejudiced against our people. They all claim to want \u2018authentic\u2019 Greek architecture, but none of the infighting, political instability, and bureaucratic nightmares that come with being Greek. They are picking at our cultural identity so they can profit from Greek originality and labor. Think about it: Pantheon is pretty freaking close to Parthenon. No one is ever going to confuse those II in MM years.\u201d Several protesters praised the end of the Roman Republic as an end to the Roman usurpation of Greek popular government. \u201cGreeks were always shamed for having government based on the people,\u201d said Ch\u00e1lase Klafthmyr\u00edzonLysandra the Winsome, \u201ceven though we have been doing it for years. The Romans hijacking it without any repercussions was a complete societal injustice. We are glad they’ve decided to give it upit failed, but we still have several goals to meet before we end their systematic oppression. Well, not the literal political oppression, just the social one.\u201d Lastly, the group gave a list of demands to end the cycle of prejudice and violence that keeps the Romans on top by stealing Greek originality. Some of these including the immediate endhalt to all togas worn by non-Hellenic outside Hellenized regionspeople, a prohibition of olive oil for all Romans, and the installation of plaques on ionic columns acknowledging their debtcomplete end to marble columns outside of the Greek world.“ The SFA state they shall continue protesting until victorious, unless they find something more pointless to whine about in the mean time. When asked about the Roman Empire, one anonymous protester summed up the entire movement, responding, \u201cIt\u2019s all Greek to me.“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}