A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.
RULES:
No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.
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.
Follow Lemmy.world rules.
Not sure where to start on Roman history?
A quick memetic primer on Republican Rome
A quick memetic primer on Imperial Rome
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.
Fantastic. Though some found lorica squamata had tin on its scales surface to give it a bit of that shinny touch (allegedly).
Love though the detail that the biggest enemy of every roman is another roman.
He’s probably Goth himself too.