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Rough Roman Memes

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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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  1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.

  2. Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.

  3. Follow Lemmy.world rules.

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[–] PugJesus 12 points 2 weeks ago

Explanation: Popular media has a tendency to treat all periods of the Roman Empire as the Principate - the glorious, shining height of the Empire - even when it nominally takes place in a later era. And even that they usually get more wrong than right.

AnonHistory, the artist, is a big enthusiast for the Late Empire, as one can see here.