If not as old as ancient Rome, it certainly goes as far back as the tenth-century Holy Roman Empire. Since then, the European ideal has gone through many changes, but two themes remained constant.
Tal vez no tan antiguo como la antigua Roma, pero ciertamente se remonta hasta el Sagrado Imperio Romano del siglo X. Desde entonces, el ideal europeo atravesó muchos cambios, pero dos temas se mantuvieron constantes.