User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Blood of Olympus Official Discussion/@comment-24693649-20141125174508/@comment-24693649-20141130085312

Thanks, Kronos, for making me feel less alone !

More I reread the books more it annoys me. Before tLH, no such thing was mentionned, but since the romans came into the equation Uncle Rick started adding this comment everytime he could. It seems to me like a very cheap way of making the romans more likable compared to the greeks...

Son-of-a-muse, the Roman Empire was hardly an united entity during all its history. Sure, some Emperors were able to control all the territory, but a big number of them had direct control over only a part of it. Just look at all the civil wars (both during the Republic and the Empire), the Tetrarchy, the Diarchy... The only difference between the greek city-states not-getting-along tradition and the romans was the scale.