There are many tyrants in Chinese history, whose bad and debaucherous things make people's faces red and red, and their scalps are numb, and there is a wine pond meat forest in front of the king, and then there is Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty who let the palace ladies collectively wear open crotch pants for fun, but these are simply overshadowed by the absurdity of ancient Rome.
The chaos of ancient Rome was reflected in various aspects, including incest among the royal family, killing fathers and mothers for power; There are strangers who are naked and honest with each other, people are like animals and they kill each other, etc., from a Chinese perspective, those things are simply unethical and absurd.
1. The absurdity of the rulers
The things that the Ming monarchs in history did were the same, nothing more than to be diligent in the government and love the people; Externally, he struggles to defend against foreign enemies, but tyrants will always have a strange way of "getting out of the circle". For example, on the mainland, there are Zhou Youwang Fenghuo Opera princes, and Song Huizong is obsessed with art in construction.
And if there is one of the most brutal emperors of ancient Rome, there is none other than Nero. His tyranny also led to the collapse of the Julia Claudian dynasty. Killing his mother, abusing his pregnant wife to the point of miscarriage in public, castrating his wife, and killing many politicians are all his "great achievements".
Nero's murder of his mother originated from a struggle for political power. Nero was only 17 years old when he succeeded to the throne, and his mother, Agrippina, held most of the power firmly in her own hands, which was equivalent to a foreign relative on the mainland.
At first, Nero was in awe of Agrippina, but gradually, his thirst for power and his resentment with his mother grew.
So Nero began to rebel against his mother, and he tried to get her mother to give up power in many ways.
But in the eyes of her mother, Agrippina was furious that this well-behaved and obedient child dared to threaten her, and power blinded her. Not only did she try to control the people around Nero, but she also openly stated that she wanted someone else to replace him.
The contradiction between mother and child has become an unbridgeable chasm. In the end, Nero could not bear this life and assassinated his mother, only to claim that his mother tried to kill him and was countered.
Both of them have lost themselves in the struggle, losing their human nature and the family affection between mother and son. Such an embarrassing ending is also destined for Nero's more and more crazy style of doing things in the future.
In addition, Nero's incest "skill" is also a big surprise. Nero has lived with his aunt since he was a child, and he has a different kind of affection for her, so he has a relationship with his aunt regardless of humanity.
When Agrippina found out about this, she tried to kill Nero's aunt, which became one of the reasons why Nero hated his mother.
But in fact, Agrippina's private life is also chaotic. She used her beauty to obtain the throne of the queen, and her uncle, the previous emperor Claudius, married and took sole power.
It can be seen that Nero's debaucherous and violent personality was largely influenced by his mother Agrippina. The mother's behavior will affect the child's life, and the absurdity of ancient Rome is also influenced by generations of promiscuous families.
The excesses of ancient Rome were also reflected in "sex". Since ancient times, chastity has been taken very seriously in China, and there are even special people to examine women's bodies before marriage. Have you ever seen a queen of a country take the initiative to become a prostitute, something that has never happened in Chinese history, but it happened in ancient Rome?
The aforementioned Claudius, his ex-wife Mesalina, was dissatisfied with her husband's coldness towards her and could not accept loneliness and emptiness. Although she is a queen, she actually works as a prostitute at night and goes to Fengyue places to have fun, seemingly ignoring her identity and husband.
Eventually, Claudius ordered that Messalina be executed, and Messalina finally committed suicide and ended her life at the prime of twenty-eight.
Such a "prostitute queen" was not the only one in the history of ancient Rome. After Maiserina, she was as obscene as Messalina was. Not only is he proud of the large number of cheating partners, but he also has the "great achievement" of comparing the number of customers with prostitutes.
Second, the social atmosphere that has been led astray
As one of the greatest civilizations in the world, the ancient Roman Empire was extremely prosperous and powerful both economically and politically, and also had a profound impact on the development of human history.
But in the same way, the slave society was full of bloody violence and oppression, and during this period, the slave owners had complete ownership of the means of production and slaves, and the slave owners had supreme power.
Due to the immorality brought out by the rulers, the masses also followed the pleasures and constantly pursued a life of luxury. Two venues became places for ancient Rome to play freely. One is a bath and the other is a gladiatorial arena.
The baths were the places where the ancient Romans bathed, and they belonged to public places, where people socialized more and made friends. This reflects the social needs of the ancient Romans and is also a cultural symbol of the ancient Romans.
However, it is such a place that can often be linked to "sex", men and women bathe together, strangers meet frankly, and there are female slaves waiting to take a bath. The atmosphere of open fornication made the baths a symbol of the prostitution of ancient Rome.
Then there is the gladiatorial arena, which is one of the four ancient civilizations in the world, and it is also full of blood and violence.
Slave societies do not regard slaves as human beings, their lives and deaths are at the mercy of the aristocracy, and the lives of slaves are only the stakes for their gambling. The aristocracy saw gladiatorial fights as show-offs and contests, and such recreational competitions made the populace addicted to gambling, causing them to lose their will and stop working.
Under such a social atmosphere, it is simply gold and jade, and it is ruined. Greed, violence, and lust eat away at this powerful empire from the inside, and eventually it is torn apart from the inside, unable to defend itself against external enemies, and can only perish in ignorance and ignorance.
The superiors themselves are unable to manage the country well, and indulge in luxury and extravagance all day long; The influence of the people has led to the general atmosphere of the society to be promiscuous, demoralized, and unproductive. The oppression and abuse of slaves led to the intensification of class contradictions. The vast empire was in decline under the influence of several people.
III. Conclusion
"With history as a mirror, we can know the rise and fall; With people as a mirror, you can see the gains and losses. "Sometimes history is often more exciting than fiction, and there are its own laws and logic behind the seemingly ruining behavior. What we can learn is not to be as rigid as people in history, but to learn to reflect on ourselves.
Power is a double-edged sword, which can lead people to the pinnacle of glory, or it can make people lose themselves and be cocooned like a frog at the bottom of a well. No matter what we do, we should have the most basic bottom line and stick to humanity and morality.