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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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Rome fanboying is eternal (lemmy.world)
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[–] PugJesus 5 points 3 weeks ago

Explanation: Napoleon (and many other Enlightenment-era figures) was a huge fucking Romaboo, to the point of, well… just look at the style of the depictions of himself he preferred! In fact, up until the 1920s, a good percentage of Western figures were out-and-out Romaboos, with the educated elite especially having an interest in Latin and the Classics!

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