Today I thought to explain why I say this and also explain a bit about European classical heritage.
So I'm currently at one of the absolutely most epic places in the world, near Segovia in Spain, San Ildefonso.
And as you can see behind me, some really epic statues.
I have made videos from here last year as well.
I will link that video below so you can check it out.
A classic training/slash nature video, and I might film some more for coming videos just because there's so much epicness here.
So basically, what we have to understand when talking about being proud sons of Rome, etc., it's more the metaphysical legacy of Rome as a pan-European thing rather than actual Rome.
So I don't mean literal sons of Rome itself, but rather the legacy of it.
And these, of course, do not start with Rome, but starts with ancient Hellas.
And just on a personal note here, I am biased because I have good feelings about Greece ever since I was small.
First and foremost, because our father read the Iliad to me and my brother when we were small, so I got that really early on, that sense of epicness from those stories.
Also, the Odyssey, of course.
And when I was small, I was six years at the time.
We went to Crete for a holiday, and everyone was extremely nice, and I liked it really much.
So I've always had a personal affinity for Greece as well.
But yeah, that was just a personal little anecdote.
Later on, of course, I've also respected Greece as the cradle of Western civilization.
And it's also something that I'm not unique in talking about being proud sons of Rome or proud sons of Macedon or Seus and Ares.
It's something that basically all European powers carried with them into the early modern era, for example.
So if you look upon the castle in Old Town of Stockholm, you have ancient Hellenic aesthetics because it's part of a pan-European thing.
So this little clip right here of Hercules suckling is from the castle in Stockholm.
So you will see this type of things in Copenhagen as well.
So the different European nations and cultures have our own culture, of course, so the Swedish culture, for example, but you also have a pan-European culture dating back to Rome and to Greece.
And of course, speaking about the Roman gods, they're basically copies of Greek gods just with new names.
And I also thought to take this opportunity to talk about this because we have had a new release for Legio Gloria, rocking this Perseus shirt now, which is obviously to encourage you to renounce degeneracy and to stay strong.
The other release is the sword of Mars, which is a nod to the Western Roman Empire.
It's called sort of Mars sort of Attila.
And this is to remind ourselves that currently, in Western Europe at least, we are at where the Western Roman Empire was in their decaying years, so to speak.
But it's a motivating thing at least, and it's something that I want to point to Greece and Rome as the spiritual origins of Western civilization.
Extremely smooth edit into the video here Another note on Achilles, as I mentioned in a recent video, also I've styled myself to a certain extent upon Achilles.
So if you look at my hair, obviously when I was 14 or 13, saw Troy and thought Brad Pitt had a really aesthetic physique and also hair.
So that is one reason.
And then also in regards to the theme of this video, it's important to point out that if I use Greek aesthetics or Roman terminology and or anything like that, it doesn't mean that I renounce the Viking side of Swedish history, for example.
I am the first one to be patriotic for my own, so it's not about that at all.
It's about a pan-European legacy.
And after all, my holy work here in the Materium, it's about Western civilization, European bioculture, European civilization.
So it's a pan-European movement that I am promoting.
It's not specifically Scandinavian.
So that is an additional motivating factor for me to use this sort of aesthetics, this type of terminology, saying proud sons of Macedon, obviously in respect to Alexander the Great.
And also another note which I forgot to mention in the previous place we recorded in is that the Holy Roman Empire or Germany saw itself as a spiritual descendant from the Roman Empire.
So you have that as a recurring theme in Europe.
So yeah, and this is the t-shirt I was mentioning about the sword of Mars.
And I thought to take these pictures here, since we have Ares behind us, or Mars in Roman.
And then a last note upon this whole Roman or Greek legacy in the rest of Europe.
My name, Marcus, is of course of Roman origins.
So yeah, back to the other spot.
Boom.
So anyway, I hope that was a good explanation of why you see in Spain here a lot of Greek aesthetics or why you see Greek aesthetics in Copenhagen or Stockholm.
It's because it's the same lineage that continues on with classical Europe.
And also if we're talking about Christianity and paganism, it's not either or.
It's first paganism, then Christianity took over.
But you see here, again, still the same sort of aesthetics.
So neoclassical aesthetics or whatever you want to call it, it's absolutely motivating and glorious at least.
