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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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I love looking at ancient sculptures and learning what those people looked like! (i.imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think it's hilarious to compare these to the famous statue of Octavian, the Augustus of Prima Porta. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the first Emperor of Rome had a big ego, but wouldn't even he be at least a little embarrassed by putting his face (or rather his face when he was younger) on the body of a god? It reminds me of those pictures with Trump's head put on top of the body of a very muscular athlete.