How is ancient Rome better than ancient Greece?
Rome was better than Greece in the fields of statecraft, politics and war. Because of their political skill, the Romans succeeded in first unifying Italy. Then they went onto unify the whole Mediteranean world under their rule, which lasted for centuries. Greece, on the other hand, couldn’t even unify internally, it had to be forceably unified by Alexander and that didn’t last two centuries (the unity of Alexander’s whole empire was even more fleeting). Also, it is noteworthy that when the Greeks learned that Mcedonian rule was over, they were overjoyed. Unlike Rome’s subjects, who soon accepted the system, the Greeks didn’t, which shows how much more skilled the Romans were politically. They were even more skilled militarily, as the battles of Cynochephale, Magnesia and Pydna show. The Roman legion prevailed over the Greek/Macedonian phalanx.
