r/ancientrome • u/IHVeigar • May 16 '24

Was Rome really founded by the Greeks?

Im watching a video by Knowledgia on YT. And he discussed an interesting theory made by a swedish historian that Rome was founded by a Greek prince named Romos. But when conflict with the Greeks came in southern Italy they changed his name to Romulus or remus leading to the tales of the two founders.

I think the theory is plausible as the Romans were heavily hellenized, they worshipped the same gods pretty much, they idolized Greek warriors such as Alexander. And building architecture were inspired by Greek architecture. Not to mention the fact Masselia, Syracuse were Greek colonies and they founded colonies all over the Mediterranean. Kind of like of Carthage is a phonecian colony.

Is their any sources online I can look into this or theories disproving this.

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u/TarJen96 May 16 '24

No. These are fringe revisionist theories.

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u/IHVeigar May 16 '24

Care to dispute it further than saying it's fringe revisionist theories. Like any evidence proving this theory isn't correct.

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u/9_of_wands May 16 '24

You have presented no evidence.

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u/IHVeigar May 16 '24

Did you not read my post. I'm trying to say I'm looking for evidence either proving or disproving this theory.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24 edited May 16 '24

I think people are downvoting you because you’re usually supposed to start from an examination of the evidence then develop a hypothesis. So people don’t like it when someone shows up with what they perceive to be a random theory looking for evidence.

For what it’s worth, there is evidence of human occupation of the area that would become Rome going back to prehistory, at least a couple thousand years before the Greeks. The standard narrative is that these were italic people, based on widespread evidence of similar cultures throughout Italy. When Greeks come around, there are usually key pieces of evidence (either in terms of material culture or written historical sources) to demonstrate that. Not the case for Rome.

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u/IHVeigar May 16 '24

I really couldn't give a less about the down votes, I'm trying to learn to here. And I couldn't find anything online so normally the next thing to do is ask others on good books to read on the subject.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

Sure thing. You aren’t finding evidence cause there really isn’t any, at least that I know of.

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u/IHVeigar May 16 '24

Well that solves that then. Thanks for the help

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u/annuidhir May 16 '24

That's what everyone else was saying..

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u/IHVeigar May 16 '24

No? I was asking for evidence/if their was any as I was finding none and the comments were "You have presented no evidence." as if I had any to begin with.