Roman tradition

Latin ancestral practice

Roman tradition encompasses the customs, practices, beliefs, and cultural heritage of ancient Rome, transmitted across generations.

The phrase often appears in discussions of law, religion, government, and social institutions that originated in Rome and influenced Western civilization: The Roman tradition of republican government shaped modern democracies.

In religious contexts, it may refer to practices of the Roman Catholic Church distinguished from other Christian traditions.

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Republic · Latin language · Venus · Stoicism · Saturnalia · Cicero · Mars · Ovid · Pantheon · Epicureanism · founding of Rome · Codex · Praetor · Livy · bread and circuses · Colosseum · Horace · Aquila

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ancient mediterranean civilizations

Roman traditionGreek culture

Civilization of Athens, Sparta

Hellenism · Celtic tradition

temporal/cultural continuity

Roman traditionmodernity

Being of present times

innovation · progressive values · modernism · medieval tradition · Enlightenment values

civilizational approach

Roman traditiontribal customs

Group's inherited social practices

Family

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