Was there any significant cultural contact/exchange between Rome

>>2438075
Are you retarded? Of course there was. Why the fuck do you think before you had the "traditional" polybian legion, the Romans fought in phalanxes? Who the fuck do you think Phyrrus was? Do you think they just didn't talk to anyone from those cities in southern Italy, the ones that were Greek colonies?

>what is the roman religion

are you american by any chance?

In Sicily and Calabria there are still communities nowadays that speak in Greek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabrian_Greek

>>2438075
Is this nigger serious?

>>2438855
>>2438906
>>2438919

Has it occurred to any of you that OP might be asking these questions in order to learn something?

>>2438949
Then he should read a fucking book.

>>2438949
We're not a fucking elementary school.

>>2438949
then he should say so and dont imply there wasnt

>i dont know if there was any contact between romans and greeks before their wars, was there any?

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they had been larping as greeks for centuries

>>2438953
>>2438976
So what the fuck is the purpose of this board? Just to circlejerk one another till it's removed?

>>2439211
to discuss, not to fill in for some countries' woeful world history education

>>2439211
this is 4chan so a certain level of shitposting is expected, but then so is banter, your thread probably won't be deleted but you deserved to be roasted for lacking basic knowledge

Magna Graecia

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>>2439325
They were all over Sicily and Southern Italy

Southern Italy and Greece are virtually the same people.

>>2438949
>>2439211

I'm with these guys. Most people do not really have a great deal of historical knowledge, especially about something as esoteric as diplomacy in the ancient world. We're on the history board, where the fuck else would you ask this question?

Again, I realize where we are, but come on.

>>2438075

To answer your question, yes.

There were many Greek colonies throughout the Italian peninsula with which Rome had regular contact, in addition to Greek merchants. These colonies were the cause of the Pyrrhic War when they appealed to the Greco-Makedonian king of Epirus to protect them from Roman expansionism.

>>2440859
This board should be for people who already know something about history to exchange ideas, not act like an educational vessel supplying elementary school knowledge for brainlets. You have r/askhistorians or John Green for that shit.

>>2440926
this.

I'm sick off faggots from other boards coming over and always talking about the same meme history bullshit like "samurai vs knight" or some religious bullshit or some /pol/ political bullshit or asking some sort of obvious fucking question that even the slightest bit of common sense would answer for you, or even the most amateur attempt at independent research.

Fuck off with WW2, ancient greeks/persians, Polish hussars, and ESPECIALLY fuck your awful philosophy posts.

Also fuck every Christian here, ESPECIALLY the false flagging trolls that give actual Christians the impression that they're in good company. This is a history board, the OPPOSITE of good company for christians, that same history that nobody could possibly maintain their faith after actually reading.

>>2440953

Poor quality bait.

>>2438075

There was some significant Greek influence, but the strongest influence was the Etruscans, whose culture in many ways the Romans took over wholesale even before their war of unification over Latinum and eventual conquest of Tuscany.

>>2438855
There are historians who dispute that the polybian legion used a proper Greek phalanx. The dates given dont add up. Its likely a interpolation by later roman authors