From Roman culture to genocide Europe's exit from the middle ages brings home the centrality of the Greco-Roman culture as the basic culture of Europe, upon which the nation is based. Europe's entrance into the renaissance was regarded at the time as an expression of the sense of renovation and moving from darkness to light after a period of 1000 years since the decline of the Roman Empire. But, would Europe be so fortunate as to acquire such "renaissance" if Rome had not adopted the Mesopotamian Egypt culture, Greece. Religion, politics and philosophy, art and literature - were all products of Greek culture, rather than independent original Roman 1 , "but we could say that its culture, as we know it, was acquired from the Greeks and "copied" to the Roman language and the spirit of the ruling stratum of the ruling people". The Roman language, as well as the Roman spirit in general, should be credited with the transferring of this culture to all of Europe, creating the "New Europe" during the renaissance. But, at the same time with the adoption of the Greek culture, there was no sympathy for the Greeks, and the Roman behavioral characteristics remained for many generations after the Stoic school and its followers, who sympathized with the Greek culture of the fourth-fifth century bc, but did not like the Greeks of their time, who they referred to as "Greekies". So that apart from the heritage of the Greeks - the culture, the Romans saw no existential value in the Greeks. The Roman pattern of behavior, as it appears in the European Jewish holocaust, was similar to that of 18 centuries ago 2 . Emilius Paulus, conqueror of Macedonia, looted the library of the Greek King, annihilating all the population of the region of Epiros, About 150,000 man, women and children. Those lucky enough to survive, became slaves. Another pattern of mass murder had been performed 200 years earlier, not far from there - the assassination of Jesus. Click to continue >> 1 Benjamin Shimron, The Classic Culture, p. 173, Tel Aviv University (Ed.), 1993. 2 Benjamin Shimron, The Classic Culture, p. 175, Tel Aviv University (Ed.), 1993