Roman Goblets VS Greek Goblets VS Medieval Goblets VS Viking Goblets

[Romulus]

You can deffinately judge a culture by the everyday things.

From an artisitic point of view and interest, we in modern times drink out of cheap cups and eat out of cheap easy to break plates.

Have we lost our pride and culture?

This is a Medieval goblet

Viking/Norse

Greek/Helenes

Byzantine

Roman

Each of these goblets celebrates heritage...

In particularly... The Romans pawn all of them. Why?

Why not of a biased opinion or a nerve to simply promote superiority... But by the realization and awe to greatness, simply by the spectacular principles which ignited the golden age.

"The mystery wasn’t solved until 1990, when researchers in England scrutinized broken fragments under a microscope and discovered that the Roman artisans were nanotechnology pioneers: They’d impregnated the glass with particles of silver and gold, ground down until they were as small as 50 nanometers in diameter, less than one-thousandth the size of a grain of table salt. The exact mixture of the precious metals suggests the Romans knew what they were doing—“an amazing feat,” says one of the researchers, archaeologist Ian Freestone of University College London."

Quoted from here

And this is the goblet

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[greycat]

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You can deffinately judge a culture by the everyday things.

From an artisitic point of view and interest, we in modern times drink out of cheap cups and eat out of cheap easy to break plates.

Have we lost our pride and culture?

We live in an era of comercialism, where companies always need to increase profit.The same companies that used to make towels now make paper towels. Bottled water can cost up to 1000 times the price of tap water.

The Romans were masters of taking known ideas and improving upon them. They could not have acomplished what they did without building upon the ideas of other cultures though...

Edited January 2, 2014 by greycat

[Mythos_Ruler]

You can deffinately judge a culture by the everyday things.

From an artisitic point of view and interest, we in modern times drink out of cheap cups and eat out of cheap easy to break plates.

Have we lost our pride and culture?

This is not a fair comparison at all. The goblets you show here were not of the quality owned by a vast majority of people in those cultures. The vast majority probably drank out of wooden bowls or cups and even then only possessed 1 or 2 of them. The vast majority probably had 1 wooden plate and ate off that 1 plate for every meal, day-in, day-out. The items you show us here were possessions of very rich people.

[Romulus]

This is not a fair comparison at all. The goblets you show here were not of the quality owned by a vast majority of people in those cultures. The vast majority probably drank out of wooden bowls or cups and even then only possessed 1 or 2 of them. The vast majority probably had 1 wooden plate and ate off that 1 plate for every meal, day-in, day-out. The items you show us here were possessions of very rich people.

Yes I know.

I am really generally referring to the wealthy.

But as I understand those citizens of Rome, now remember excluding slaves and the wiff wraff, had a very good standard of living and they did have goblets.

What I show here is a scrape off the iceberg totally. There thousands of different types....

[Romulus]

Actually it is fair.. Because say like you have the wiff wraff drinking out of wooden goblets... The other civilizations would have the same thing ...

So in this case, the Romans still win because had the finest artisans and carpenters who would of made fine wooden goblets... Even if they are standard and common.

But there was so much lost in time... what you had was a place teeming with variety which sadly didn't last over the years for us to marvel at...

[sanderd17]

The vast majority probably had 1 wooden plate and ate off that 1 plate for every meal, day-in, day-out. The items you show us here were possessions of very rich people.

My great grandparents (our maybe some levels older) had no plates, and ate directly from the table. Though the table was foreseen to eat stuff like soup. It's like the plates were carved in the table.

[av93]

You can deffinately judge a culture by the everyday things.

Not really, you need the context. BTW, the main problem is that you could read the past with modern eyes....

[Lion.Kanzen]

Not really, you need the context. BTW, the main problem is that you could read the past with modern eyes....

That the problem to Judge the past cultures from the people of this days, I hear, the roamns were a "Butchers and pervers" , obviuosly are not the same way to think. even if you see the movies are full of Cliches.

[Romulus]

I would say it's all relative